At a guess it's so no spousal maintenance comes into it.
If
there's no spousal maintenance ordered from her to you (which it probably
won't at £70k v £40k and she has children) then you can't come back to her
at a later date for a variation when she goes pt.
If sm from you
to her was awarded (even a nominal amount) then should anything happen in
the future she could come back to you for a variation.
Also
because of having the children almost full time it makes her working pt
look reasonable and entitles her to a bigger slice of the marital pot.
Mine gave up her area manager job to go 16 hours a week minimum
salary for a friend just before the first financial hearing. Then refused
throughout to disclose details of her own se business which is cash in
hand.
Contact with the children was also refused for the first 5
months until i got a
contact order.
The other ploy was to try and get court awarded
child maintenance on the grounds she'd get more than
csa rates on the pretence i wasn't paying and wouldn't have children - this
way it usually comes in more and cannot be altered for 13 months and 1 day.
Unfortuneately in her case i got everything set up with the csa before
court and they were great at faxing the details through for court they'd
seen this trick before.
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