I am not an attorney, but technically speaking, if the judgment would be for $x, can’t he sell the farm and then give her the $x? perhaps the farm is worth more in which case that makes way more sense. if it’s worth less, i guess signing it over would cause less transaction fees and therefore cover more of the owed amount?
i guess i’m wondering if getting the farm is that easy.
also, someone who can’t get out of bed before 9 wants a farm? i find that curious.
i will also add that since I am not a scheming type person, i often can’t see elaborate schemes that people may concoct.
I see, but that’s not how I perceived it. I saw it more as, one is using the test of a costly litigation to intimidate someone into doing what you want, like extortion. The other is a natural consequence of not properly defending your suit.
What you may be reacting to (edited to add that you can react any way you see fit!) is that many here are assuming Lk will not be successful in her suit, and they are taking that supposition to a conclusion. And honestly, her attorney is doing her no favors…
38,000 new items. . New. . Since the civil action.
So no, COTH doesn’t have the bandwidth to host that.
And you haven’t seen that many posted here have you? Recently?
If LK loses the lawsuit SHE launched against SGF and MB… it’s very very likely she will be ordered to pay their legal expenses.
In an ideal world, whoever is ordered to pay a legal judgement just goes ahead and fulfills their legal obligations.
But… sometimes when people own houses in Florida, they hang on to their property and refuse to pay the legal settlement… because Florida has a homestead exemption. Also… sometimes when people have millions of dollars that are protected by a trust, they refuse to just go ahead and pay legal settlements, and instead, the party who is owed money has to engage in additional action to garnish disbursements from the trust, over the course of years.
See, after dealing with a narcissistic ex who was ‘wronged’… he was suing and pushing for much more than most of us would have felt just. He would rant about wanting anything that his target felt important to them. He wanted their job, he wanted their wife to divorce them, he wanted custody issues. And he still wanted to work in the same lab for the following 5 years to finish his degree program. Just with the lab leader removed and him in the place.
It had nothing to do with a normal person’s sense of reasonable. It was 100% take anything that is meaningful to the other party.
This. The situations are NOT the same. MB and SGF are involved in litigation and may prevail. KM is NOT involved in litigation and did nothing to be sued for, yet there was a threat to drag her through the courts. Threatening a baseless lawsuit is not a pretty picture.
And, before you (g) say one can’t bring a baseless lawsuit, I say it’s done every day. And the defendant has to take money and time to defend said suit. BTW, defamation is very difficult to prove, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t sue for it.
I always thought LK threatening to sue for defamation was a bluff because it would be expensive for her as well, and even if she made the case she had been defamed, damages would be hard to prove. I don’t think she wanted money from KM, or her farm, just for KM to stop repeating the claim that LK found defamatory. It would have been costless for KM to admit that she possibly misremembered a few words in LKs post, but she just doubled down again and again, all the while whining that LK was threatening to “take her farm”.
If LK had sued for monetary damages and won (a massive IF), she could then have asked the court to place a lien on KMs property. That’s exactly the mechanism the legal system has in place for someone who thinks they’ve been defamed. Exactly the same mechanism as in a judgement awarded in any civil
case.
There doesn’t appear to be a contract between SGF and LK. Arbitration is a contractual remedy for contractual disputes, so there will probably not be arbitration.
What tack would you have preferred LK take to stop KM from continuing to repeat something she considered to be defamatory?
Threatening to sue for defamation was unlikely to work and probably just a bluff, but were there any alternative methods, when KM continued to make the statement considered defamatory even after being informed it was not true?
I’d have ignored it, it’s sm claptrap, it dies and gets buried in posts, depriving it of oxygen. These things have the ability to live forever, otherwise.
But my motto is “You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. […] Never run. […] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow”
You’re most welcome - and as a non-American, I just love this “You like butta- you is on a roll! ”. Never enough butter in my world, preferably French with added sea salt.
