I need to pause the numbered series for a current update.
This is not just history anymore.
The same judgment I have been writing about is now being enforced against my family’s daily life.
And once again, one of my children is being pulled into a lawsuit that was never against them.
First Ethan. Now Emily.
Earlier, I wrote about my son Ethan’s bank account.
That account included money he earned from his summer job at UPS and money intended for college.
It was frozen anyway.
Now the court has entered an order and writ that lists my daughter Emily’s Toyota 4Runner as property to be seized.
Emily is not a defendant.
She is not part of this lawsuit.
She uses the 4Runner in Colorado to get to and from work.
She has made the payments.
I am connected to the title because she needed a co-signer to qualify for financing.
There is still a sizeable loan on it. I’m unsure of the balance because I do not have a login or make payments. Emily does.
It is not sitting in my driveway.
It is not hidden.
It is my daughter’s transportation.
And it is now listed in a sheriff’s writ.
The Question I Cannot Get Past
I disclosed the issue with the 4Runner.
I explained that it is not beneficially mine.
I explained that it is used, possessed, and paid for by my daughter.
I explained that it is not located at my home.
So here is the question:
Why would an attorney ask to have the Elkhart County Sheriff seize that asset after all of that had been disclosed?
And why would the court sign an order that puts that burden on my daughter before she was ever heard?
That is not a small thing.
That is not a clerical detail.
That is a real person’s car.
This Is Starting to Feel Familiar
This is not the first time family property has been pulled into this.
There was Ethan’s bank account.
There was also the concern over family property, including items that were not really mine to lose.
Or my grandmother’s antique table.
Valeo’s attorney had read the post about that table and about needing to get it to Hannah, who had asked for it months earlier.
At the last hearing, Valeo’s attorney brought it up to the court and suggested I had transferred an asset to one of my children to keep it from being seized.
I explained that Hannah had claimed the table months earlier.
I even asked the judge if he wanted my daughter to submit an affidavit or testify.
He said that was not necessary.
But now Emily’s vehicle is listed for seizure without Emily being heard.
So apparently an affidavit was not necessary for the table.
But something more should have been necessary before a court order reached my daughter’s vehicle, jointly owned family property, liened property, and tools used to keep our household running.
This Is What Enforcement Looks Like to a Family
The order does not just list Emily’s 4Runner.
It lists vehicles.
It lists a camper.
It lists an old boat that is not even functional.
It lists a lawn tractor.
It lists carpentry tools.
It lists automotive mechanic tools.
It includes broad catchall language for other property over $500 at our home.
It does not include any clear waiver for jointly owned property or property owned by others.
It is not clear from the writ itself that Kim’s belongings, our kids’ belongings, jointly owned property, liened property, or property with no real equity are protected from seizure.
That means the Elkhart County Sheriff is being asked to sort through family property under a Marion County court order, while the people whose property may be affected were never parties to this lawsuit.
This is what enforcement looks like to a family.
Not theory.
Not procedure.
Not legal abstraction.
A sheriff’s writ.
A daughter’s car.
A wife’s property interests.
Tools used to keep vehicles running when money is tight.
A business computer used for work.
We Tried to Avoid This
At the end of the last hearing, the judge again asked me to talk with my wife about setting up payments so this could be put on hold.
I did that.
My wife and I talked.
We agreed to the second amount Valeo’s attorney requested in court:
$500 per month.
I emailed that agreement to Valeo’s attorney.
She acknowledged receiving it and said she had passed it along to Valeo.
Then the asset-seizure order was filed anyway.
The judge signed it.
So I am left asking another question:
If they were not willing to accept the payment amount their own attorney requested in court, is this really about the money?
The Work Is Being Sent North
This lawsuit was filed in Indianapolis.
The judgment came from Marion County.
But the court order now commands the Elkhart County Sheriff to do the work.
Show up at our home.
Sort through property.
Figure out ownership, or just take it anyway.
Deal with liens.
Deal with family property.
Deal with tools, vehicles, trailers, and household items.
Then, if anything is sold and anything is left after costs and liens, send the money back down to Indianapolis.
All for a judgment that grew out of a case where I have shown missing contract documents, wage reductions, unsigned agreements, and metadata problems.
That is the part I need readers to understand.
This is no longer about whether old filings were odd.
This is about what those filings are now being used to do.
The Order I Asked For
After the writ was entered, I filed an emergency motion asking the court to stay, clarify, modify, or reconsider before seizure occurred.
I asked the court to make clear that non-party property should not be seized.
I asked the court to make clear that jointly owned property should not be sold without notice and an opportunity to be heard by the non-party owner.
I asked the court to make clear that liened property should not be seized unless there was actual equity after debt and costs.
I asked the court to stay execution against Emily’s 4Runner until ownership, location, lien status, possession, and equity could be considered.
I asked the court to protect business equipment, including the computer system I use to generate income.
That proposed order would have paused things long enough to prevent obvious harm.
Instead, the same day, the court denied relief.
The denial suggested a concern that I had failed to disclose assets.
But I did disclose the assets.
I disclosed Emily’s 4Runner.
I disclosed the tools.
I disclosed the vehicles.
I disclosed what I knew.
The only asset I forgot to list — which my wife later reminded me about — was the withheld wage fines Valeo still owes me.
Why I Am Moving Faster
For months, I have tried to walk readers through this carefully.
Part 1 started with the bank freeze.
Part 2 showed the wage reductions.
Part 4 and Part 5 showed the missing Compensation Agreement.
Part 15 showed that the 2010 Employment Agreement and 2010 Compensation Agreement used at summary judgment were generated from the same Word document days before filing.
Part 16 explained how connected issues were put into separate boxes.
But enforcement is moving faster than the story.
So I need to move faster too.
Not recklessly.
But faster.
Because the same judgment I have been explaining is now reaching my daughter’s transportation, my wife’s property interests, my tools, and my ability to work.
The Question Is Getting Harder to Ignore
Some readers have asked the obvious question from the beginning:
Why so much over so little?
That question is now unavoidable.
If this were really just about collecting money, why reject the payment amount Valeo’s own attorney requested?
If this were really just about lawful execution, why list my daughter’s vehicle after I disclosed the facts?
If this were really just about non-exempt property, why put jointly owned family property and liened property into the path of seizure before ownership and equity are sorted out?
If this were really just about a clean judgment, why has so much of the record looked anything but clean?
I am not asking readers to accept every conclusion.
I am asking readers to keep asking the question.
If this is not really about the money, what is it about?
Part 17 will move from Valeo and its lawyers to the court itself.
Because at a certain point, this stopped being only a story about what Valeo did.
It became a story about what the court allowed.
And now it is a story about what the court is enforcing.
A Note to Readers
The next few posts might be a little rougher. I have had drafts of the series ready for months. I’m scheduling them to post over this coming week in case I have no technology available to me. Readers will not be denied the opportunity to become informed and prepared to protect themselves. I’m hopeful that is the worst case and unlikely scenario, but recent events and this entire 11 year saga suggest I’m too optimistic and expecting too much justice.
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