Economic abuse post-separation, where financial deception is exposed

When perjury is proven but not punished

I thought perjury was perjury, but every time this was proven, the judge raised his eyebrows, with disapproval, but no sanctions were imposed because of it needing to get to the end of a final hearing, and continued to swan off and keep spending our remaining funds abroad due to the “process”.  By the time I got to the final hearing two and a half years later, I was exhausted and broken, with no representation and trying to manage a new job. No sick pay, no holiday and all my non-working hours spent trying to keep up with his lawyers’ constant correspondence and deadlines. A broke man has a London lawyer and barrister, and the wife, full-time parenting and barely a year into a new career, is self-representing and the primary caregiver! It made no sense.

declaring poverty after spending disclosed funds

At the final hearing, his barrister declared his client unemployed with no means to provide back pay. So even though he more than had it at the beginning of the process,  he had spent it now.  Even though I was entitled to alimony with dependents living with me for the last 4 years, he had not paid it!

Consultancy income disclosed too late to matter

And guess what? There was a consultancy lined up 2 months straight after the final hearing overseas for £10k a month. Something he had conveniently not mentioned in the box at the final hearing.

Why financial disclosure must be enforceable from the outset

When the order to declare salary came a year later, lo and behold, that consultancy only lasted 4 months, and the rest of the year, he apparently had ‘no employment or means’. It is evidently a tactic, and that aside, he still managed to earn more than me in those four months, yet I am the one abandoned and paying for it all.