Labug,
At this stage I really don't know what to do to protect the kids.

If I signed the car deals like H says, he would continue paying mortgage and school fees - or so he says.

But I would lay myself open to bankruptcy if he defaulted.

If I don't sign, the school fees and mortgage payments stop as well as all credit card payments I presume - and so i am forced to bankruptcy.

In the meantime my 88 year old father has just had a serious fall and it looks as if we will have to find him a nursing home - and this involves serious $$$.

To top it all off, my L announced that if my elderly parents depart the earth before I settle with my H, he will be entitled to half of their estate as well as half of mine.

In the meantime, I have to go to work and, amongst other things, stand in front of a room full of 250 people and talk for an hour.....

Got to keep going, but sorry for myself at the moment.