[quote=ucodegen][quote frenchlambda]The “stipulation and order” with the $85k never made it to the final divorce agreement.
[/quote] That is correct, and that is what may save you. The required reimbursement under the “stipulation and order” does not go away by omission in the MSA. You just have to be careful of blanket statements in the MSA which can make it go away.
[quote Eugene]Whatever rights you have now, two months after the divorce has been finalized, and after countless signed papers, it’s really hard for me to say.[/quote]
My point too, though there is that outstanding $85K which may not have been addressed by the MSA. This is why I would have an attorney look at all of those, the sequence they were signed and why (show him all of the signed papers, leave nothing out). He gave up tangible value in the trust deed to receive a ‘promissory’ on the 85K. Unless the MSA addresses the ‘promissory’, it doesn’t unilaterally go away.[/quote]