I'm very sorry to hear about your difficulties and you don't need money
worries mixed up with the difficulties of
separation. I hope I can
relieve your anxieties to some extent.
The fact that he left you
means, one assumes, he will have somewhere to live. You and your children
need the former marital home as a
residence. I would
expect that, in the short term at least, you would probably be given the
right to continue to live there, perhaps until the children fly the
nest.
In the longer term your housing needs will be less and at
this stage a sale and division of the proceeds may be appropriate but you
should be left with enough to secure a home of your own.
He will
have to pay you 15% of his net salary in
child support and possibly something on top of that.
All depends on the figures, I'm afraid.
One useful piece of
advice is to review your entitlement to
benefits, and especially tax
credits. They may need to be varied upwards now that you are no longer a
couple.
This is as much as I can say right now but I hope it may
relieve your worries a little.
LMM
Forum 
England and Wales 
