[stomachmonkey]

Don't know how your relationship with the ex is but if it's toxic you may want to put a lock on your credit.

One of my former step mothers was so vindictive she spent a couple of years opening lines of credit in my fathers name and going on a spending spree.

She died unexpectedly from pneumonia complications.

Couple of years later the creditors found my father.

She'd racked up a $250,000 bill that he ended up on the hook for.