Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Missouri

In 2008 my husband was in a custody dispute with his ex in North Carolina (we live in Missouri). We paid our lawyer in full and he even told me not to worry because we were paid through the trial. Well after the trial was over he sent a huge and false bill to my husband. We tried to arrange a payment plan but he refused. He said he wanted all the money immediately. We could not pay it as we have 4 kids and had given him a huge amount of money already. He decided to file with the courts for a judgement. He won by default because we could not afford to travel there for the court date and the court mysteriously never received our responses. It is 6 years later and now we want to buy a house. We can't unless we pay the judgement. My question is how was it legal for him to sue me (a step-parent) for a custody dispute where I was not the defendant or the plaintiff? We also never had a signed or verbal contract with him. Is there a way to get the judgement vacated now? He filed one judgment for me and my husband. Not separate ones by the way. I don't know if that makes a difference.

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