Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee

Struggling Student Pays Debt for Gready Ex Husband

While in the process of divorce, I signed a legal document stating I

would pay my ex-husband $3,000.00 for ''mutual debt''. I only owe

him another $300.00 but am angry because I never should have

given him the money in the first place. I paid for 1/2 of the down

payment on our house (which he still lives in) and gave him

$4000.00 for the down payment on the Jeap he drives. I struggle

while waiting tables to pay for my college education while he has a

Masters degree. What would happen if I just stopped paying him?

Is there any way I can get any of that money back? He has been

using the money I give him to further improve the house, and can

easily sell it for twice what we paid.


Asked on 4/06/03, 11:00 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Marc Reisman Rosenblum & Reisman, P.C.

Re: Struggling Student Pays Debt for Gready Ex Husband

I can not answer your question without knowing what the legal document is. I probably would need to see it or have it read to me. However, I can tell you, if the legal document was a dissolution agreement which was incorporated into a final decree of divorce, that is now a court order and you must comply with court orders. Best of luck. M. Reisman 901-527-9600

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Answered on 4/07/03, 11:13 am


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