Hi Gogivit and Lula MANY thanks for taking the time to reply! Gogivit-he says his package was so low as the company laid him off precisiely because they were struggling and therefore didn't have the money to give him?!

Hello Thank you for reading and considering this post-I cannot find any information out there to help me! I am currently going through a divorce and my ex husband says (just before the financial hearing which awards maintenance payment to our children ;-( that he has been made redundant. He was a director of a Limited company and therefore I have seen his filed 288b from Companies House. This doesn't prove anything though does it as I believe even if he was made redundant he will still have had to file this form? He worked for a small close knit company that I cannot get any confirmation of redundancy from and to date all my solicitor has received is a piddly 2 line e-mail from the other company director outlining what my ex can expect as a pay out after 12 years at the company (looks like he received just 7k!). The tone of this short e-mails suggests that a deal is being struck between the company and my ex and nowhere does it say or have I seen an official "you've been made redundant" letter! I should also say that the Limited company is a subsidiary of a PLC and I am wondering whether I can get any information from them? (My ex says they wont give me any information as the MD is a doddering old man and that I must accept the info given me by 1 of his best mates/the current MD of the subsidiary that my ex was made redundant from). So-I am stuck with having to accept that my ex may be playing scary silly games with the financial security of my children. When the judge ordered that our house be sold (as now neither of us are in a position to pay a mortgage) my ex quickly found a temp job when up until then he insisted that there was no way he had a hope of finding a job "in the current climate!" I do not begrudge him his finanial needs, I want us to have all this behind me fairly and quikly. But-I am afraid that he is doing this in an attempt to force me out to work leaving pre-shoolers to be cared for by strangers. I am not against working but given their young age, I do not believe it is in the best interests of our children right now. I am limited in the hours I can work and therefore salary I can command whilst he can(and was) commanding over 60k pa. PLEASE help me to get to the bottom of this, is there any way I can find out if he was made redundant or if he walked? I have once again asked my solicitor to write to the company but I haven't heard anything about this. To summarise: 1)Under what circumstances is a form 288b filed with companies house 2) Is there any publi information out there that may tell me whether my ex was redundant or resigned (i.e. like info filed at companies house?) 3) Are there any divorce or employment lawyers out there that can shed some light on what I an request from him/his employer to confirm his redundancy? THANK YOU all for your help.