DRAFT
2018
Mr. Roberts and I had been living together since 2011, but it wasn't until 2018 that he suggested we get married, although I didn’t learn why until it was too late. His debt to the IRS amounted to approximately $182,000, as per a notice dated November 23, 2020. After filing joint tax returns as a married couple, I received a letter from the IRS with Mr. Roberts’ tax debt, but in my name. It had been opened by him and was lying on the kitchen table where I found it almost a year later. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to see it.
In Mr. Roberts’ Domestic Violence Restraining Order (DVRO) against me in December 2021, he wrote that, “Wife claims I made her ‘responsible for [my] IRS debt’ is not even worth entertaining. As mentioned above, I am filing for divorce and any separate community debt will be addressed, confirmed or assigned by the Court pursuant to applicable law.”
Reality check:
in my DV-120 response filed with the court, even as I sat homeless and stranded, I was still able to provide a copy of the IRS letter I received because I had it saved on my phone, and it served as evidence that I was telling the truth. The judge did not see any of my evidence because Steve Korn failed to present any of it during trial.
Mr. Roberts was also having his Social Security payments levied. I knew nothing of this when we got married and it was one more important detail that he kept from me.
In 2020, because Mr. Roberts was angry with me, he shredded all of my credit cards and my dental card, as well as kept my new driver’s license. He had arranged our lives so that I was completely dependent on him for my livelihood. I went from being an independent, self-reliant individual to being completely reliant on Mr. Roberts for all of my needs; a mistake I will never make again.
After we separated in 2021, he defied a court order to pay spousal support, causing me to become homeless and destitute while living inside a disabled vehicle. I ended up hospitalized twice due to four bleeding ulcers and received three blood transfusions.
