Making a sponsorship agreement illegal?

[Jembear]

Question? Is it possible to get out of sponsorship as co-signer?
Ex wife is sponsor, I was co-sponsor as ex's salary was not enough to qualify. Against my wishes I agreed to sign as co-sponsor but in ex's best interest, agreed at the time under duress. She was depressed as she wanted her parents to live in Canada, told me if I did not sign she would seek a divorce and take our children with her. Reluctantly I signed.
Her parents finally arrived, 2 months after they arrived (and lived with us), I was literally thrown out the house as ex and parents made it unbearable. 6 months later I was served divorce papers from ex. Not a year later after her parents arrived, they moved to the home town of the ex's now fiance. No-one from family has spoken to me in 6 years. Now I find out letter from Ontario disability to me the mother has applied and now the ex and me are equally liable to pay any monies back to Ontario disability as this is part oF Immigration/sponsorship agreement that we signed. The bill is now $3 000 and will continue tio increase by $1 500 (what she gets from disability) every month. I had no idea they did this and they want nothing to do with me.
Can I file or appeal to have my co-sponsorship revoked due to duress/pressure and falsely led to signing. It seems clear to me this was a "plan in the making" so I see no reason why I now have to pay this money for another 5 years to someone who wants nothing to do with me, especially since I am divoced from ex who was the main sponsor.
Does signing under duress not make a contract null and void?
I need URGENT answers/suggestions please

 

[rjessome]

Just my opinon but I think your only option is to sue your ex in civil court. I have never heard of anyone being able to get out of an immigration undertaking due to signing under pressure/duress. You should speak to a lawyer. This is beyond an internet forum.

 

[Jembear]

As they (ex and her mother) have refused any and all contact with me for a number of years, I had no idea what there situation was like or that they had applied for disability. The couple of times I tried to call them or inquired about them to my ex, I was told to stay out of their lives and if I try and contact them they will have me charged for harassment.
I know the agreement says "I promise this and that, blah blah blah, but any efforts I made to find out about their well being I was threatened with.

They in turn made no effort whatsovere to contact me or ask me for anything, stating that I am no longer part of their lives. I am aware that the agreement states I can do nothing about it, BUT in my opinion they have been "in contempt" (if I can use that term) by not keeping to their part of the agreement.

Frankly I see no reason why I should now pay co support someone who has clearly made every effort to disclude me from their lives..understandably because their daughter divorced me.

I know chances are tiny or nothing but I have nothing to lose by writing and explaining the situation...do I?

 

[Leon]

There are few cases where spousal sponsorship has been looked into if it was obvious that the spouse was scamming and the sponsor raised hell about it but normally it's not easy to get out of sponsorship. Obviously their plan was not to go on disability and make you pay or she would have done it right away, not 6 years later. You should talk to a lawyer. You can also talk to your MP and protest this but I think you will need a lawyer too.

 

[Jembear]

She had no reason at the time to go on disability...they were ok, were able to take care of themselvers etc etc.
I think part of this is now because her daughter has finally lost out on spousal support she was receiving