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29 May 25 #525910 by Abe05
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Ex and I jointly own 4 bed family home and I own a small 2 bed which is about to be sold shortly.

ex insisted on keeping the 4 bed family home because of our child. This property holds the most significant asset in the marital pool and she didn't want to pay anything to buy me out. I never resisted her keeping the family home but my solicitor advised she needed to pay a considerable sum to buy me out of the property. To settle out of court, I've proposed a final offer at significant cost to me (giving up 55% of what I was advised was required to buy me out) for her to pay to me. She agreed to this but refused to provide evidence of remortgage affordability and capability to buy me out, which is key given concerns about her mortgage raising capacity.

she's received two promotions in the past year but refused to provide evidence of her new annual salary.

Now I intend to use the equity from the sale of the 2 bed home and the amount she pays to buy me out to purchase a new home for our child and myself. But all lenders say I must be released from the mortgage in the family home before they can release funds. Her conveyancer handling the property transfer say they can't commence until they see a sealed Consent Order and report back to her lender. And my solicitors say we have no agreement if she refuses to provide evidence of remortgage affordability and equity buy-out, and she's refusing to provide these because she said her solicitor said I don't need to know "every minor details" of how she intends to remortgage the home and buy me out.

so now we're stuck and I'm bleeding money trying to get her to complete disclosure.

is there anything we can do to unblock this?

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01 Jun 25 #525940 by WYSPECIAL
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Where are you in to in the financial application?
At some stage she is going to have to provide these details so the court can see them.

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01 Jun 25 #525941 by Abe05
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Still trying to get her to disclose evidence of remortgage affordability and ability to pay initial lump sum, which she has refused to provide so far based on her solicitors advice. On Friday she provide screenshots of bank balances without any account name info and no evidence showing capability to make the lump sum. There is no way to be sure the monies weren't moved between accounts to create appearance of higher balances.

her solicitor seems to be deliberately obstructive to drag out the matter for as long as possible for more billable hours while giving appearance to be "fighting her case" within the bounds of the law.

I am now considering submitting an application to court to resolve the matter but I'm fully aware she will become cooperative all of a sudden and blame her solicitors once the matter goes to court as she always ensures she has a fall guy for any negative decision she takes and desperately avoids accountability.

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01 Jun 25 #525942 by Abe05
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I also informed her of the same via text - the court will not approve a consent order without these. She said her solicitors advised her otherwise and lodge a complaint via her solicitors that I was verbally harassing her into giving me “what I want” and need to stop

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03 Jun 25 #525952 by Abe05
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Just been to the police to report the false allegations claim and resistance to progress matters to put me in financial distress. They advised her solicitor never filed an harassment report about me (which they had a duty to) and that must have been done to intimidate me. After informing ex I have now filed a report about her actions and solicitor's with me police, she advised she never consented for her solicitor to make the claim of harassment against me and had instructed the solicitor to move matters forward instead. She's responsible for her solicitor's actions or "inaction" so I'm holding her accountable. I'm giving them a week to respond appropriately to the request before I proceed with court action highlighting her conduct and her solicitor's

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