ex-husband gets off scott free, wife and children being harassed by C & G

My husband left me and our four young children in Nov 1991. Unbeknown to me he had ceased mortgage payments some months before because of the pending separation. With a young family my part-time income would not cover the mortgage repayments and I was advised to leave my employment and claim benefit as the DSS would contribute toward the mortgage, and this I reluctantly did. However, and to cut a very long story short, due to the arrears on the mortgage, the DSS payments were unsatisfactory according to the C & G and despite appealing through the courts my home was repossessed by the C & G in 1993. I had therefore now lost my husband, my job and my home, not to mention my pride. In all this time I did not receive any maintenance payments from my ex-husband and was living solely on social security benefits. Approximately six years later I began to receive letters from the C & G concerning the shortfall in the sale of the house, amounting to £30,000. This took me quite by surprise - as far as I was concerned they had taken my house and sold it - if anything I thought they should be paying me! I queried with them firstly why it had taken them so long to approach me on the alleged shortfall and was told that they expect people to 'get back on their feet by this time.' I replied that in order to have £30,000 going spare I would have had to have won the National Lottery. Secondly I queried why they were approaching me solely and not my ex-husband - this they wouldn't comment on. I can only assume that the reason for this is that my ex-husband made himself voluntarily bankrupt shortly after our separation. I have not made any effort to pay anything to C & G and have ignored all their letters. I also received phone calls to my workplace which I consider to be harrassment. I finally lost my temper when they phoned me at work and expected me to discuss the situation when I had a customer standing in front of me. They have not phoned me since but continue writing at least one letter a week. The last letter was received on Saturday 29th June, stating that since I had ignored their previous correspondence they would be sending someone to my home. I have had the worry of this hanging over me all these years while my ex-husband continues with his life worry free, driving around in his brand new van and having 3 or 4 holidays a year! I am now living in a council house with my new partner and although i am able to work full time i am not financially secure by any means and consider the whole situation totally unfair.

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