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Based on Richard’s agreement to list the parcels, the
divorce court agreed not to incarcerate Richard. Thereafter, the
farm acreage and the residence acreage were unsuccessfully listed
for sale at a price not disclosed in the record.
By the spring of 1998, the farm acreage and the residence
acreage had not sold, and Marilou had not received any portion of
the $84,000 specified in the 1994 divorce decree relating to her
interest in the farm acreage and the residence acreage. Richard
was delinquent in obligations he owed under the divorce decree
(e.g., mortgage payments and real estate taxes due on the farm
acreage and on the residence acreage), and Marilou’s name was
still on the deeds.
John, who at the time was 24 years old, agreed to purchase
from Richard and Marilou for approximately $45,000 their
interests in the farm acreage. The $45,000 represented the
payoff of the mortgage on the farm acreage, and the payment of
overdue real estate taxes, plus a $30,000 cash payment to
Marilou.
John’s offer represented an attempt to keep the farm acreage
in the Suchar family while at the same time providing funds that
could be used to pay Marilou a portion of the value of her one-
half ownership interests in the farm acreage and in the residence
acreage.
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