starting divorce

Starting going through a divorce. We haves one young son 15 months. I am currently living at our marital home in a seperate room. We rent the house but we also own a flat which we have been renting out. We have given the tennants notice and I will be moving into the flat when their notice runs out. I will be paying the motgage on the flat. My wife who is on a low wage wants me to pay the rent on the marital home, as she wants to remain there with our son. The rent is over twice as much as the mortgage and I feel it will be a strain if not impossible to pay it. I wonder as she is on such a low wage (minimum) whether she will be entitled to housing benefit and family tax credits. She also wants to keep the car because it will be more practicle for her looking after our son during the day. She works as a waitress in the evenings so still wants me to come to what will be her house in the evenings to look after our son and stay other seperate rooms of course. Which I don't really mind as it means I get to be with him for alot of the eveningds during the week. It's just going to be very tight. But I feel I must do my best to help her because if I don't I fear she is going to go back home to Poland where she moved from and take our son with her.

On a fathers forum I was told that on no account should I leave the matromonial home, but I was thinking perhaps naivley that it would be better for all of us, considering the icy atmoshere in the house, that I do move out. Any thoughts?

Don't move out until you seek legal advice. Many solicitors offer a free half hour and this is well worth taking. Then you know if this is something you can deal with yourself or if you need help with it.

thanks for the advice a quick search on the internet proved fruitful with alot of family lawyers offering free initial advice.