My wife (now separated from me since 22 April 2016) has filled out her financial statement, signed it and has overstated her personal expenses to try to avoid paying spousal maintenance.
I am a sufferer of chronic pleuritic pain after having twice, bilateral pulmonary embolisms (blood clotting of the left & right arteries from the heart to each lung - a very much life threatening illness at the time). I now suffer chronic pain almost ever day. I can not work as the pain is very bad at times & stops me doing things, I have to take strong pain medication (morphine and other drugs) which makes me sometimes very drowsy.
I am on the Disability Support Pension & my standard of living is going to be affected a lot if spousal maintenance is not granted to me. At present, we are separated under the same roof. The tension here is so thick you could cut it with a knife (as the old saying goes) as she does not talk to me at all. She has a good full time job earning over $2500 per fortnight. We have our houses paid off. I am 56 years old and she is 51 years old.
I have her bank statements and for instance, I have calculated her costs for food at supermarkets, from takeaways, cafes & restaurants. The amount she stated is $220 per week whereas it only calculates to $100 per week.
Other items are also overstated, such as electricity at $30 per week, whereas I have calculated from the bills at $4 per week (I know that sounds very low but the house has a very large & efficient solar system & our bills are usually very low or in credit, especially over summer). There are many other items either overstated or questionable.
What can I do about her trying to show that she has no disposable income to afford to pay spousal maintenance to me?
I am a sufferer of chronic pleuritic pain after having twice, bilateral pulmonary embolisms (blood clotting of the left & right arteries from the heart to each lung - a very much life threatening illness at the time). I now suffer chronic pain almost ever day. I can not work as the pain is very bad at times & stops me doing things, I have to take strong pain medication (morphine and other drugs) which makes me sometimes very drowsy.
I am on the Disability Support Pension & my standard of living is going to be affected a lot if spousal maintenance is not granted to me. At present, we are separated under the same roof. The tension here is so thick you could cut it with a knife (as the old saying goes) as she does not talk to me at all. She has a good full time job earning over $2500 per fortnight. We have our houses paid off. I am 56 years old and she is 51 years old.
I have her bank statements and for instance, I have calculated her costs for food at supermarkets, from takeaways, cafes & restaurants. The amount she stated is $220 per week whereas it only calculates to $100 per week.
Other items are also overstated, such as electricity at $30 per week, whereas I have calculated from the bills at $4 per week (I know that sounds very low but the house has a very large & efficient solar system & our bills are usually very low or in credit, especially over summer). There are many other items either overstated or questionable.
What can I do about her trying to show that she has no disposable income to afford to pay spousal maintenance to me?
