Separated, how much should I provide?

justme111

paulineb wrote: »

Some money, not ridiculous amounts of money and certainly not paying her credit card bills and keeping her in the lifestyle she wants to be accustomed to.

Well , as far as I remember from a divorce from one of my acquaintances he was expected to keep her ex broadly in the lifestyle she was accustomed to so not sure why you so convinced of the contrary. It's just that their original arrangement was causing him undue hardship so I thought he better do something to lower the amount but I got no idea what judge or solicitors woyld believe reasonable. I reckon op will be lucky if they will think the same as you do (and I as well by the way). All this divorce business seem to be too much on the female side fory.liking although my.evidence is anecdotal only I admit.

duchy

A lot depends on the age of the children ...and the wife.
In this case there is one child *just* below eighteen and the wife HAS worked in recent years. The long term spousal maintainance seems to be when the wife has never worked (or is too old to work) and has no prospect long term of supporting themselves.
Each case is different - which gives the solicitors lots of scope to earn more fees by making unreasonable proposals.

justme111

Yeah I would guess no long term one but they are only in the first year.postseparation so she probably will get some for now , and it is indeed a guesswork.how much . Mau be jack will be lucky and she will get nothing

JackRS

justme111 wrote: »

Yeah I would guess no long term one but they are only in the first year.postseparation so she probably will get some for now , and it is indeed a guesswork.how much . Mau be jack will be lucky and she will get nothing

unlucky in love....

justme111

Indeed , I hate it when I consistently win nomination whist these days

JackRS

'king hell she's now disagreeing with which firm I've proposed to handle the sale of the property! She wants to go with the more expensive option that the estate agent has recommended. I've said I'm not prepared to spend an extra £350 just because it's a local firm with no obvious advantage.

Gigervamp

Didn't you say you'd received an offer on the house which you had accepted? If so, surely you're now bound by a contract with the estate agents who found you the buyer?

She's stalling. Expect more shennanigans.

justme111

JackRS wrote: »

'king hell she's now disagreeing with which firm I've proposed to handle the sale of the property! She wants to go with the more expensive option that the estate agent has recommended. I've said I'm not prepared to spend an extra £350 just because it's a local firm with no obvious advantage.

She obviously can afford it

kelpie35

If she has not made much of a financial contribution to house I don't think she has a say in this.

This is only my thoughts as I don't know much about buying/selling a house.

JackRS

Gigervamp wrote: »

Didn't you say you'd received an offer on the house which you had accepted? If so, surely you're now bound by a contract with the estate agents who found you the buyer?

She's stalling. Expect more shennanigans.

I was talking about the firm to handled the legal side of selling as in solicitor.