My Husband Won't Pay Me What I'm Owed From Our Business
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If your private student loans are in default, you're not out of options. |
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| 0:09.2 | My husband's a contractor, and I'm a staymate home mom, and we've owned our own business for 12 years. |
| 0:14.3 | And in the last three years, he's been partnering with his brother and just splitting profits 50-50. |
| 0:20.3 | And I was okay with that until this recent year. |
| 0:23.0 | We've got a job that's taking over a year. |
| 0:25.1 | And I do all the paperwork. |
| 0:26.6 | So I run the business side of it. |
| 0:30.6 | And so I asked for this job if I could get like 5, 10% for me |
| 0:34.8 | because I felt like it's a lot more because I've got workers, competent employees and subcontractors now with this year-long job. |
| 0:41.4 | And he said, no, he doesn't feel comfortable doing that because this is where I got a little |
| 0:47.5 | upset. He said, I'm a wife that helps out. And doing a little bit of paperwork doesn't mean I get a cut of the business. Like the full business as a whole? Are you just trying to make, are you trying to get them to pull more salary, like payroll for you? I mean this. No, I mean this job. Like we own our own business. It's a small business and we've been fine've been fine and I technically own 49% of |
| 1:12.4 | business that's what it is on the paperwork yeah yeah but I do like 10% of it because I just |
| 1:16.9 | do the paperwork but I thought I was a business partner well you aren't arguing about |
| 1:23.7 | splitting 50 50 with his brother so this big job he he said, no, we can't do that. |
| 1:30.3 | You're just helping, you're my wife and you're helping me out. |
| 1:33.0 | So I don't have to do the paperwork and I can spend more time with the family. |
| 1:37.9 | Hmm. |
| 1:38.5 | And so, and I just, for the last 12 years, I thought I was a business partner. |
| 1:44.4 | And so I just, I don't know., I thought I was a business partner. And so I just... |
| 1:46.1 | I think this is... |
| 1:47.3 | I think this is more about... |
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