Is a default costs certificate enforceable?

H was ordered to pay my divorce costs. He ignores any request I make so I went down the default costs certificate route. I issued him with the correct forms such as the notice of commencement of assessment of bill of costs etc

He just ignored that so I’ve applied for a default costs certificate.
What do I do once I get that? He will definitely just ignore it.
So how can I enforce it?

Any help appreciated. We’re fully divorced and have gone through the court and settled financially etc. It’s been very high conflict and he’s highly manipulative and deceitful so it has been a long two years. We also both ended up self representing after the initial £16k I spent on solicitors got us nowhere.

He owes me £2k for the divorce costs. Any ideas on what steps to take next to force him to pay?

The default costs certificate is a money judgement which means you can use www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome to begin debt recovery proceedings.

You need to allow 14 days from service of the default costs certificate to allow payment and you ought to issue a warning that debt recovery proceedings will be issued by a particular date if payment is not made.

It'll cost you a small court fee which is added to the debt. It can all be done online.

Charles

Charles thanks so much. I’ll do that.

Hi Charles,
Hope you do not mind me jumping on this thread-I am in the exact same situation- i just wanted to check if the default cost certificate is form N255 and crucially where do i file this? I cantfind any info! many many thanks