My husband and I lived with my aunt-in-law for 4 years. We established a great family dynamic. My aunt-in-law passed away on Father’s Day 2024. My uncle-in-law took us to the Justice of the Peace court to evict us on January 2, 2025. Judge Sasha Moreno stated that she couldn’t evict my husband and me because we are part of an heirship. She told the uncle he needed to go to probate court to establish ownership.
After the court date, he created a fraudulent warranty deed and took us back to JP court on April 2, 2025. He won, and we appealed the JP ruling. We perfected the appeal on April 11, 2025. That triggered a de novo trial where our case would be heard fresh like the JP ruling had never happened. The uncle obtained a lawyer after counterclaims. The lawyer intercepted the de novo trial and sent us to an auxiliary court where former judge Andy Chatham signed the final judgment and order for possession on June 4, 2025, without a trial.
On July 2, 2025, my husband and I were illegally evicted. Constables from the JP court forced me to disconnect from my remote job. During this illegal writ of possession, I lost my job. On July 18, the Fifth Court vacated the final judgment and order for possession and dismissed the case. The uncle called the police to get us arrested for criminal trespassing, but the police didn’t because we were well within our rights to be at our home.
After two failed police calls, the uncle and his shady attorney, Julius Staev, filed an emergency hearing with the Fifth Court for a rehearing, hoping to reinstate our appeal so we would have to leave our home. The Fifth Court of Appeals reinstated the appeal and vacated their July 18 opinion without a rehearing. They ruled in the uncle’s favor because the court and the opposing counsel know him—bias.
The uncle told the Fifth Court that we forcibly broke in on July 18. That isn’t breaking in when we have a judgment on the same day to return to our home. Now, my husband and I are homeless because of an illegal eviction and a biased court system. When we appealed the JP ruling, by law, you can’t be evicted. Your case is heard de novo by Judge Nicole Taylor, who was the presiding judge assigned to our case that we never saw. The Justice of the Peace constables didn’t listen to us when we told them and showed them our appeal. The uncle, out of anger and being vindictive, wanted to sell his deceased sister’s house because she didn’t leave him and his two other brothers money. She left the two sisters money. She left the house to me and my husband.
The uncle destroyed her will and is claiming ownership. They didn’t go to probate court to establish ownership. All 5 siblings, including my mother-in-law, have their own homes and no rights to our home. They are trying to steal my husband’s inheritance and leave us homeless. Two of the uncles tried to give us a rat-infested, condemned house in Forrest City, Arkansas, so they could sell the house. The uncle created a bogus lease and forged my husband’s signature. He wanted my husband to take the bogus lease and forged signature to the water company because my mother-in-law had the water disconnected.
My husband and I trust God to bless us with a home.