Aussie turfed out, house secretly sold

News.com.au - 14/04
When Leah* was with her ex-husband he was a high-flying executive earning $200,000 but his salary suddenly plummeted when it came to paying child support after a horrific divorce.

When Leah* was with her ex-husband he was a high-flying executive earning $200,000 but his salary suddenly plummeted when it came to paying child support after a horrific divorce.

Her ex-husband now claims he only earns $24,000 a year, amid a growing epidemic of men under-reporting their salary to get away with paying little or no child support.

Australians owe approximately $1.7 billion in unpaid child support.

For Leah, it’s created a situation where she has been “financially devastated” as she struggles to look after her two teenage children full time, despite leaving a relationship marred by coercive control and mental abuse.

“I had a large portion of financial wealth that I had put in the house. He had it ordered by the court that it was sold and I never once signed a single document, so the house was sold from underneath me,” she told news.com.au.

“It made the children and I homeless and we ended up in a refuge. I don’t know how that was allowed to happen when I owned that house and suddenly it was on the market. I didn’t know when it was sold, the amount it was sold for, I didn’t know anything – it went into a trust.

“These are the kinds of things women go through and now the children and I have to navigate the Sydney rental market, which is very tri...
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