Okay, ladies and gents, what's BM's angle with this one?

DH and BM had a no-child-support financial agreement where he paid for private school for a number of years. There was a "settlement" amount that at the end of years if the private school payments didn't meet that amount he owed her the difference.

He paid her the difference two weeks ago. It's not a huge check but it's not peanuts. He has a copy of it so we can show he wrote it out. He dropped it off at her office so people saw him. He wrote to his lawyer to let her know.

She was so gung-ho for the money at the beginning of the year (it was technically due at the end of Jan, but DH had to get through the shenanigans of her fighting that certain things were tuition...things on the actual private school enrollment).

Why hasn't she cashed it if she was so adamant about getting it?

I have only three ideas:
1. It means a chapter of her link/control over DH is gone and she doesn't want to cash it to close that door.
2. She wants more money and is trying to figure out how to work the angle/if she can claim she didn't get it.
3. It means a chapter of her link/control is over and she's not cashing it to retain control.

My recommendation to DH since they don't have their latest legal thing signed is to not sign it until she cashes the check.

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That was my concern and my

That was my concern and my advice was that he send it certified mail with signature and as a money order.

Did he do any of that? Of course not.
All the lawyers involved for the other stuff helped with this situation, too. I doubt they'd support BM going after him that way, but you never know.

Maybe she just doesn't need

Maybe she just doesn't need the money so she's taking her time cashing the check? We don't need the CS (which is almost nothing) that BM sends, so we usually collect a few checks before we take it to the bank. We usually forget about them until we realize we haven't cashed in weeks. These are checks from her work, if they were personal checks, we would pay more attention because we wouldn't want to mess up BM's account.

This was a personal check

This was a personal check from DH, from our account. See my post above about advising him to get something more official. It's not a small amount so it's hard to "forget about it."

I would add a little more

I would add a little more documentation to the situation and email her:

"While balancing our check book we noted your check for our no-child-support financial agreement has not cleared yet"

But I wouldn't worry too much about two weeks.

Our BM harassed DH for medical expenses for 6 months, she kept lying and refusing to show receipts and we couldn't get the correct information and he numbers didn't match ours, had to get the lawyer involved, she would send emails 2-3 times a week and so did her husband DEMANDING the money NOW!
When we financially got it straitened out and cut the check, she held it for 6 weeks.

She enjoyed beating DH down more than she actually wanted the money...