Good Morning everyone;
I have been researching this problem for the GF. Her Ex-husband has told her that if she goes for child support or alamoney that he will declare personal bankruptcy and dump everything on her shoulders. Now what I've been trying to do is research via the net on whether he can do this or not. He left her with a hell of a dept load and she already has paid for his fines to get rid of him. She still has the worry of the student loan he has (she co-signed during her marriage) and that she was finacally strapped while he paid her nothing for the children and has spent his money on dope meanwhile her depts keep piling up. Lately I have the suppicion that he either is layed off his job or quit in an effort to screw her. He has told her squat about anything and being on shifts that vary from week to week I have fail to find out if he works or not.
Can anyone tell me or point me to a web site or to a person (in canada) that can answer my questions cause I'm pretty sure that the bankruptcy laws have changed so you can not do that when children are involved. Thankyou<p>231<p>[ February 17, 2002: Message edited by: 231 ]</p>

Hi I am from Alberta Canada and in this province in bankruptcy they can get rid of there debt except child support and traffic tickets. What you can do to find out for sure is look in the yellow pages under bankrupcty and phone one of the places and ask, also in your search engine on internet try putting in bankruptcy in Ontario and you should come up with something, also try and involve girlfriend as this is her problem and then she can argue the point better with her Ex if she has read the facts. Good luck

Hi Jazzie;
Thankyou for your input and as for phoning a someone that does bankruptcy I never thought of that. I'm looking into this just for my couritousity and if I find something positive I'll tell her.<p>231 [img]images/icons/smile.gif" border="0[/img]<p>[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: 231 ]</p>

Hi;
Well I found out what I was looking for and the answer is yes and no. No he can not avoid paying almony and child support or his student loan but yes he can file for personal bankruptcy and dump everything what he owes on her ( including what we don't know about). Her only recourse is to also file for personal bankruptcy and total screw up what little credit she has left. Like one famous comedian once said "Did you ever had the feeling that the world is a tudexeo and you're a pair of brown shoes"
This really puts a downer on me now
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231 yes that is the same here in Alberta, I had that same problem when husband and I split but I worked on paying all off even things he charged after we split. My ex help pay off about 30% and I did the rest he still had to claim but all he owned by this time was a few thousand dollars in my house and he signed it over to me. I think your girlfriend needs to check out what all debt they had. Good luck and keep your head up.

Hey, I live in Ontario, and have you thought of looking in the phone book? It isn't the Bell one, but the knock off we get (mine is upstairs right now, sorry!) but in the front, they have a number to call and listings for all kinds of info on alimony ,support, laws regarding bankruptcy, etc.<p>
I think a lot of the times people get caught up in the money aspect of things and forget the big picture. Yes, bankruptcy can cause problems and isn't fun, but my question is did she help rack up those bills? Or was it their own doing?<p>If she has to get stuck paying for them, can't she also CANCEL all of them, too? At least that way there is no last minute binge shopping on the ex's part...you know what I am saying?!

Hi;
Thankyou for your input on this subject.Carina Dream here's the story. The bills where in her name cause she was working at the time,then he got a job in secret(control thing again) made her quit her job under deress( that one hasn't been explained to me yet). He would pay the rent and pay for some food but in his own words the bills are your problem not mine and gave her no money for it. He spent his cash on wacky tobaccy and other things. He gave her the food money and it was either feed the kids or pay the bills which would you choose and what ever she got in baby bonus went to what ever bills she had. When he left she got another job and tried to pay things off but was layed off later, went on pogey until it ran out. During this time the bills ran up. She tried to pay the best she could but you know the story. All this time it's been a royal run about in courts always stalling by chancing his mind.No child support, no money what so ever from him. So yes it's his fault from day one.<p>Jazzie;
Like you yes I think she can over come this and eventually pay them off. But now her rent has doubled and she has to move I'll explain on my other thread(this is my story).As for him helping to pay for some of the debts. I don't think so Tim.<p>231<p>[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: 231 ]</p>