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Tom Padgett Answers Interrogatories, 12/5/92

Tom Padgett's answers to interrogatories provide some background to later issues in the case.

We see what Tom Padgett claims at this time is the amount of his income; $85,000. Does that include bonuses? We'll find out later.

Beginning at the bottom of page 5, Padgett mentions the wedding ring (elsewhere it's sometimes called an engagement ring) he gave Laura with a diamond that he now claims was a loan -- yes, a loan -- from his mother. How romantic!

Also, it's been ordered that the Eagle Summit would be Laura Padgett's vehicle. Now we learn that Tom Padgett has secured a loan to Gail Padgett with the title to the Eagle. I wonder whey he got a lien on that vehicle rather than something else?

Also, Padgett has frequently said that the litigation drained his savings. But from this document, it appears he had very little savings because he reports large loans from family members by this date, a few months after the divorce was filed. Perhaps he got the loans because he truly had virtually no savings, or possibly claiming to owe money to his family members was a way for him to have obligations to someone other than Laura and his children, Or possibly there's another reason. However, he could certainly get sizable loand on very short notice.

And there's this sterling paragraph, about a purported loan from his mother (must be characterizing events in August, 1992 when he mentions August of 1991):

$20,000.00 (Tom), borrowed to replace some of the belongings taken by Laura and her mom in August of 1991, to pay for debts incurred by Laura, Tom and family, to rent and/or purchase a home in Michigan. To pay excessive litigation instigated by Petitioner and her counsel, including the additional costs associated with the venue of the litigation, additional transportation, and excessive state and federal tax burden created by Laura's desire to file individually. Secured by title to boat motor and trailor, and attachment to IRA account. Must be paid back in four years, no interest.

  1. When the divorce began, Padgett was already living in Michgan for a year, so him having to "rent and/or purchase a home in Michgan" was presumably something he'd considered well before the divorce.
  2. The "litigation instigated" by the petitioner was a divorce initiated when Padgett's wife caught him having an affair during the 11-plus months he lived in Michigan, apart from his wife and children.
  3. How about those "costs associated with the venue?"Laura filed for divorce in Hopkins County, and Tom Padgett filed in Lexington two months later. Perhaps whatever more it purportedly cost him to have the case heard in Hopkins County might have been more than negated if Padgett hadn't filed a duplicative divorce petition in Lexington, and further compounded that cost for himself, Laura, and their chlidren by then appealing the venue decision that he lost.

Otherwise, there's a lot of background information and the beginnings of Padgett's insinuating approach to filings, which will blossom later in the case as the court becomes less and less fond of his game-playing.

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