Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

My divorce was final in December 2015, my ex husband threw me and my kids out in August of 2015, two days after closed all our accounts and left me with no money to provide for my kids. 4 months of him not speaking to me except to get me to sign my rights over to a company he started while we were married. He manipulated, lied, then promised we would work things out even if we got divorced. I have all this in writing. He convinced me he had no ownership in the company. Narcissist in one word. I did what he asked, my only concern was saving my marriage. As he packed the last of my things since a week after he threw me out he had the locks changed, I just came across some papers I was not suppose to have. The license and LLC and him as sole owner. I dug deeper, income tax returns with him as sole owner. I never saw these because he had an accountant. Needless to say he screwed me over. Our divorce decree has no specific accounts, funds in either checking or savings and I just found he was hiding another sewerage account that I was not on. He did not provide the current appraisal for the house with the MAJOR upgrades. It was the appraisal from the time it was built. I raised his two kids with severe behavioral issues, abandonment from their biological mother, couldn't work the first two years we were married because I was sitting at the school almost every day. As I looked at the tax returns he was bringing in almost 700,000 a year vs my 12,000. How can I get this reopened with new found discovery that he lied about. I even have some of his family members to testify on my behalf, he would call them and tell them to convince me to not get an atty and that he did not own the company, which as of January 2016 its worth more than 25 million. How do I proceed?


Asked on 10/05/16, 4:25 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

The short answer is: You are probably out of luck.

The time limit for appeal has passed.

You COULD file an equitable bill of review, depending on certain factors.

Start calling local lawyers, and ask them:

1. Have you ever filed an equitable bill of review?

2. If I hired you to do it, how much would you need me to pay up front?

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Answered on 10/13/16, 1:31 pm


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