How My Ex Stole My House & Life Savings & H-1B Visa Immigrants Made Me Homeless
This has been one hell of a year. Let's face it... it's been one hell of a decade.The past two years have been the worst. But I'm fighting back. I have studied the law and I know my rights.
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How My Ex Stole My House & Life Savings & H-1B Visa Immigrants Made Me Homeless
This has been one hell of a year. Let's face it... it's been one hell of a decade.The past two years have been the worst.
In December of 2022, my husband/partner of 16 years divorced me and threw me out of the house at Christmas – over politics.
When he told me he wanted a divorce, he said, "You'll find someone to go with you to church and Trump rallies."
Then, right before Christmas in 2023, I was thrown out of my rental home by my H-1B immigrant landlord, and thrown out again this past Christmas. Another H-1B visa immigrant.
I need to vent for a minute and tell you all what has happened to me. Not so I can dwell on it, but so I can get it off my chest and move on. Because I am so ready to move on. Ready to start my life over and start rebuilding.
But I will always remember Roseanne Barr saying what helped her work through her PTSD was to write it down.
So here we go. Feel free to skim or skip.
If you jump to the end, you can read about how I am essentially homeless right now.
But I'm fighting back. I have studied the law and I know my rights and I know I will win.
I promise, we'll go back to uplifting, empowering, educational content after I get this out of my system.
The Constitution to the Rescue
Oh and the best part? By going through hell for the past 2 years, I effectively earned a PhD in the legal system and how to fight back using our constitutional rights.
In fact, I think this is why God made me go through all of this. Because now I have learned the secret to never being afraid again: Our constitutional rights are granted to us by God and they are inalienable.
I will be sharing more about this with all of you in the months to come after I get my victory. And trust me, my victory is coming.
How I Got Sick from Contaminated Water
In my recent blog posts, I told you how, all last year, I was unknowingly being poisoned by the contaminated water in my rental home.
I didn't realize until November (after living there for 10 months) that the water heater was broken. It was not getting hot enough to kill the bacteria in the water supply.
I was suffering from fatigue, a constant cough, excess mucus in my nose, throat and chest, chronic heartburn and nausea and vomiting.
The Landlord Lied
Just before Thanksgiving, I called my Indian H-1B landlord who has overstayed his visa (he's been here for TEN YEARS and is lying on his LinkedIn saying he has a job, when he hasn't had a job in over a year and a half) to tell him the plumber said the water heater was broken and needed to be replaced.
He got mad and said he was going to put the house on the market. I asked him if he thought it was wise to put the house on the market during the Christmas holiday.
He said he wasn't planning to sell it until the new year. My lease was ending at the end of the year, but I figured he would let me live there at least through January and maybe February.
I couldn't understand why he was always getting mad at me and yelling at me on the phone whenever I told him that something needed to be fixed.
After I realized he was lying about having a job and overstaying his visa, now it made sense. He was broke and taking it out on me. If I had known he didn't have a job, I never would have rented the house from him, because I would have been worried that he would want to move back in.
My son and I drove up to Dallas to stay at my mom's house for a week over Thanksgiving. I was taking oregano oil, licorice root, in addition to my usual chlorine dioxide solution and zeolite. And I started to recover. My symptoms were almost gone when we drove back to Austin after Thanksgiving.
Within days of being back in the rental home, I started getting sick again. Which I didn't understand because they had replaced the hot water heater. It was at that point – on December 17th – that I decided to look in the dishwasher and realized that there was standing water – so the dirty bacteria-laden water was recirculating.
I was getting sick from my dishes!
Kicked Out at Christmas
I called the landlord to let him know about the dishwasher and he got angry, again. He said I needed to be out by December 31st. One week before Christmas, he's telling me we needed to be out by the end of the year. Same exact thing happened to me last year, with a Mexican H-1B immigrant who was renting me the house.
And like I said, the year before that, my ex-husband threw me out during Christmas. Moved his girlfriend in March, 3 months after he threw me out.
Can you imagine packing a whole house full of stuff 3 years in a row? And this is after I packed the entire house in California to move to Texas in 2020. We had 5,000 square foot house. It's a lot of stuff.
I told the Indian landlord he was wrong, he couldn't throw me out in 2 weeks, because according to Texas law, you have to give a tenant 30 days notice.
I said I would be staying until January 31st. He never did fix the dishwasher so I had to wash all my dishes by hand in order to pack them.
It took me over a month to recover from being sick from the water. After I stopped using the dishwasher and the shower in that house.
The good news is, I'm better now. I have finally stopped coughing and the mucus went away.
I did almost daily chlorine dioxide baths and enemas, in addition to drinking CDS and taking zeolite and ivermectin and Fenbendazole.
H-1B Visa Hell
I thought about my options regarding moving into another rental home and decided it didn't make sense. Why move all my stuff, just to be thrown out again a year later?
Honestly, I had no idea how many immigrants were buying up the homes in Austin. What are the chances that BOTH of my landlords were H-1B visa holders? Now it made sense why every neighborhood I've lived in so far in Austin was full of foreigners – mostly Indians.
And when I think about all the Americans who have been laid off in the past decade, only to be replaced by foreigners who not only have stolen our jobs, but are also taking our homes. Now you can see why I am so angry. Immigrants are driving down our salaries and driving up our rent and mortgages.
And they don't share our values. The Mexican who threw us out of our home last Christmas is gay, has a live-in "husband" and has not bothered to learn English, even though he's been here on a visa for over a decade.
These people have no shame. Taking our jobs, taking our houses, and those gay Mexican landlords had the audacity to withhold a big chunk of my security deposit because there was "lint in the dryer" and "trash in the trash can."
Seriously. I should go back and sue them to get it back. I bet I would win. Anyway, I have bigger fish to fry first.
Limited Housing Options
So another rental home was not a good option. But at the same time, I also didn't want to move into an apartment. Apartments in the Austin area are super expensive still.
The rents haven't adjusted much since the boom in 2021. I was paying $2350 for that Indian-owned dump – a 4 bedroom – and when I went to look at apartments, they were all around $1800-$2400 for 1-2 bedroom units with no yard.
And we really need a yard. We have a dog – we got him for our son the month before my husband divorced me in 2022.
Back to Court
So, in December, I realized I had no choice but to finally sue my ex-husband and get the house back that he stole from me.
In Texas divorces, the mothers are almost always the custodial parent, and they almost always get the house – like 99% of the time. And, just like California, where we were married, Texas is a community property state where the assets are divided equally between the two parties.
My ex-husband tricked me by using an invalid, unenforceable postnuptial agreement he and his mother talked me into signing back in 2015, the year after our business, Village Green Network, failed.
He used the postnup to claim that all of our property was separate. And that's how he took the house and forced me into a rental home.
Lawyers Suck
This never should have happened. I never wanted a divorce – he was the one who asked for a divorce. If my lawyer had been even the slightest bit smart or conscientious, he would have nixed the postnup immediately due to the fact that there were no assets listed.
I wrote my lawyer an email weeks before the mediation saying I had a copy of the original postnup and it had no assets listed. Which makes it unenforceable.
The lawyer ignored my email and never got back to me. Then, during the mediation, he pressured me to sign the mediated settlement agreement, which was totally based on that invalid, unenforceable postnup.
No-fault vs. Grounds-based Divorce
Not only that, but he would have countersued my ex for a grounds-based divorce instead of a no-fault divorce. My ex had cut me off of the bank accounts back in 2015, and I had no access to money for SEVEN years. He let me use a credit card but he monitored everything I spent.
Cutting a spouse off from the marital property is financial abuse in Texas and California, and in the state of California, it is considered Coercive Control which is considered domestic violence.
In addition to the financial abuse, I have substantial evidence of verbal, emotional and yes, even physical abuse.
My husband physically assaulted me twice in 2020 – one time he threw me down a flight of stairs and another time, he shoved me across a room.
So my lawyer should have countersued my ex on the grounds of cruelty.
But what I have learned through this whole process is most lawyers do not give a crap about their clients. All they do is rake in the bucks. They get paid by the hour so it doesn't matter whether you win or lose.
Constitutional Law
Also, lawyers don't know jack sh*t about the constitution. Which is, on its face, absolutely stunning, because the United States Constitution is the very basis of our legal system.
The Supremacy Clause
What I have learned this past couple of years, studying the law, is that our constitutional rights supersede all other laws, mandates, contracts.
It's called the Supremacy Clause, Article 6, Clause 2:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." (US Constitution, Article 6, Clause 2)
What this means is, if a law, mandate or contract (such as a divorce decree) violates any of your constitutional rights, it is not valid and can be thrown out. The Constitution reigns supreme.
All Public Officials Are Bound by Oath to Defend the Constitution
Furthermore, Article 6, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution requires judges to swear an oath to support the Constitution.
This clause also applies to lawyers, and all other federal and state public officials.
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution..." (US Constitution, Article 6, Clause 2)
What this means is a judge or lawyer cannot deprive you of your constitutional rights. If they violate their oath to protect your constitutional rights, you can have them removed from office.
My Constitutional Rights Were Violated
By using the postnuptial agreement as the basis of the divorce decree, my ex and his lawyer violated my constitutional rights.
My fifth amendment right was violated because I was not given due process of law.
The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no one can be deprived of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
I was not given any information of the marital assets when I signed the postnuptial agreement. There were no assets listed. Therefore, it was fraud.
The judge will not be allowed to let this stand because if he does, he is violating his oath by not supporting the Constitution.
I was also deprived of my first amendment right to free speech because my ex and his lawyer included a "gag order" in the divorce decree. For that reason alone, the judge must vacate his ruling.
Deus Vult
Our constitutional rights were granted to us by God and they are inalienable – meaning they cannot be taken from us.
As I will show you in my upcoming blog posts, you can win every single case as long as your argument is based on the constitution.
I'll be talking a lot more about this in upcoming posts and videos, so stay tuned. If your rights have been violated like mine have, you can fight back and you can absolutely turn things around.
My first hearing is scheduled at the end of this month. I am representing myself. I will never trust another lawyer again.
I will be posting my sworn affidavit online on my blog soon, and I'll talk more about how all of this works.
I know that I will win. Because Deus Vult. God Wills It. He has big plans for me to help others win.
No one should ever be allowed to violate our constitutional rights. And if they do, we can fight back and we will win.
I'm Essentially Homeless Now
Like I said, it didn't make sense to move all my stuff and unpack again just to have to move again in 6 months or a year.
I put almost everything I own in storage. Then I moved into temporary shelter – an Airbnb – this past week. I'm here for a month. I can't even get mail here. Luckily I have my business PO box.
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