Owe Your Ex-Husband $18,000

Yes.

I am trying to reach a Jones place.

My name is Attorney Gidry from the uh law firm.

Is she available?

Yeah, just a shape.

How you doing, ma'am?

I'm actually trying to get some business rectified.

Um dealing with your divorce that took place, I guess, over the last seven whole years.

Am I correct?

Correct.

I got some file up with your paperwork here.

Now, you guys had some property that you owned together, I believe, in Avondale.

Am I correct?

Correct.

I'm looking at your paperwork here, Miss Jones.

I'm still a jones.

Okay.

Now we're getting onto the property, and that seems to be where the problem is lies.

Is in Avondale, you guys had some property, and you sold it as you both went and and split your ways.

Right.

Um, looking at the paperwork that I have here, it seems like it was filled out incorrectly.

I don't know how seven years.

has passed for this to come back and and fall on my desk to be uh to get rectified but um whatever the dividends were that you guys took and and and shared that you're now looking as if you're owing Mr.

Jones an additional eighteen thousand dollars what how is that I uh ma'am I don't know I'm I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I wanted to bring this information to you and see how we can get it rectified uh I'm not looking for you to have that much money uh available at uh today but I do know as uh as an attorney for Mr.

Jones I must say that we're trying to get it taken care of as soon as possible.

Um wait a minute

back there so how do I owe him 18,000?

I'm I'm um for what reason well the paperwork here ma'am seems to be Yeah what the paperwork say it wasn't supposed to be 50 percent 50 percent between you with you all it should have been 7525 and he being 75% of the property owed to him and 25% Oh no I don't know how what uh you know Louisa is a community practice and how could he get seventy five percent and I get twenty five uh from

my understanding that he paid most of the bills when you guys were living together and that don't have anything to do with that no he didn't pay most of the um bill I worked and contributed to right and I understand that but my understand from what I have here on the paperwork and and I understand that you'd had some contribution to it but it just seems like you did not um contribute as much as he did

and yes and did I never heard no like this.

I do apologize ma'am but what I do need you to do is is definitely not use that type of language while I'm on the phone, okay?

Well look I don't really have to talk to you because I know I don't know I don't owe no Jones no eighteen thousand dollars and he didn't overpay me because it was community profit.

I had two children for him.

I left with nothing he had everything and there's no way I'm gonna pay him no eighteen thousand dollars.

Ma'am I hate to get a little abrupt with you but you are Going to pay this $18,000.

Now that's going to happen.

Now, if I if I have to garnish your check and do it, then that's the way it'll have to be done.

But the money will be coming to Mr.

Kirk Jones in the sum of $18,000.

Call it back in.

Yeah.

Look, don't you hang up on me again.

Now, if I have to put a lien on your property or put a lien on your ass, which one do you want?

Look, and you don't talk to me like that.

I talk to you anyway I want to.

You're gonna pay $18,000.

That's what you're gonna do.

Uh-huh.

Now I don't want to have to come to your house, ma'am, to pick up this money, but I will.

I'm not working.

I want to know how do I have to pay him $18,000.

See, you're not working.

That's our problem from the start.

That's why it wasn't 50-50.

That's why it was 75-25, because you were not holding up.

I work all through the year.

I've stared at that man 26 years and I worked.

Well, what is your butt doing now?

Nothing.

Well, there we go.

That seems to be the root of our problem, isn't it?

No, that ain't the rule of no problem because I want to know how that Kurt could get 18%.

And the reason that is a community property, he had his lawyer, and I had my lawyer.

He agreed to it, and that was that.

So I don't know how I owe him 18,000.

Ma'am, that's the way the problem was.

Evidently you didn't read the paperwork that you signed when you and Kurt separated seven years ago.

Now, if you didn't read your paperwork correctly, this is why it comes back to bite you in your butt.

Oh no, it's not because I had a lawyer.

And and he had his lawyer.

We agree with that, and was back and forward, and we agree with everything.

He signed the paper, and that was that.

Well, maybe you didn't have a lawyer that was worth it, damn, who didn't read the bottom of the paperwork himself.

And I had a lawyer and thought I had a good lawyer.

That that and I understand that, ma'am, and that happens a lot a lot of time.

I can't believe that.

And I and I had two children struggle with him, and we got what we got by both of us work, and this on he gonna come back and tell and oh.

No, I'm gonna fight this.

Well, when can we expect the payment starting to work on this $18,000?

I don't know.

Well, I mean, I'm gonna have to get a date or something where I can start getting five hundred dollars from you per month or something like that.

Yes, indeed, five hundred a month.

I haven't worked I was working and up when you want to sit.

I I don't think I should have to tell uh tell you all this because I need to get talk to me a lawyer because I'm not agreeing to anything because I don't think that no it's not fair.

I tell you, give me a dead nine because I'm gonna have to get me a lawyer.

I'm trying to keep my compos as an attorney, ma'am.

How do you have the right and I I don't have no say so over this?

Are you are you have you remarried?

No, I haven't.

Okay.

You you realize if I don't get the money.

Uh-huh.

Then I don't get paid.

Right.

Listen, I'm gonna be down in your area uh probably on Wednesday.

Do you think you and I can get together and probably talk about this?

Because I want to help you as much as I can.

Yeah, because I don't think it's fair to me.

Wednesday we're at.

I'm not I could be there.

Well, you think that maybe uh you and I can get together maybe and work something out.

Yeah, because I know I'm not I mean, I cannot afford to pay Jones, no eighteen hundred dollars.

You know, took the house for me for little or nothing.

And I tell you what, I tell you what, I'll do this.

I won't I won't tell Mr.

Jones anything.

But only on one condition.

That's me and you being able to work this thing out behind closed doors.

What you mean, work it out?

I mean work it out.

What do you mean?

What do you think I mean?

I don't know.

Tell me.

Well, maybe you know, like I'm dumb.

Some relations or something.

Really?

Why would you want a relationship with me?

Not relationship.

You don't even know me.

Not relationship, but just you know, maybe kind of kick

care you what way?

I'm dumb.

I don't know.

I don't know nothing about life.

I think you know a whole lot about life.

No, I don't.

But why is you messing with me?

I just want to see.

If we can maybe get together, I'll throw all this paperwork out and I'll let no, it's not possible.

But If you meet me, you meet me Wednesday, I'll make this thing go away.

I'm gonna believe this.

I tell you what else you ain't gonna believe.

What?

This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.

You just got pranked by your sister Janice.

You no good

air, huh?

I got Janice on the phone.

I got I got her grandbaby on the phone.

You just got by the whole family.

Yeah, Jen, I'm gonna kick your fes.