Lawyer fees and bills

Hello, my name is Kayla and my husband's name is Garrett. We have 2 beautiful girls Madison and Mallory who are 5 and 6. We have been living in our home since 2018. An agreement was broken due to emotional and personal reasons, and I'm am fearful of what the future holds. We are needing financial help for lawyer fees and past due bills, due to this very stressful and wrongful situation.

To begin, in 2015 when my daughter was 2 months old, Garrett's aunt kicked us out of a home due to her being mad that we wouldn't allow her to come into our house whenever she wanted, and was mad we discussed personal feelings with Garrett's mom. We decided to permanently remove this person from our lives, especially after she sent emails boasting about repeatedly suing renters.

In 2018 we had plans to move out of state and Garrett's grandmother offered us a deal to keep us here. She said she wanted to purchase us a home for which we were to pay the mortgage payment, property tax payments, and insurance by transferring funds to her via bank account. The agreement has always been this, and then during a discussion with the bank with her present, once we had our credit score up to the banks standards we would assume ownership of the home and have it put in our name.

Beginning January of this year Garrett's aunt felt she wanted our house and wanted us out after finding out the grandmothers health was declining, and we still wouldnt allow her into our lives. She looked back at our payment history and was trying to come up with any way to cause any disagreements. She succeeded in this. Any disputes on any "late" or "missing" payments were either handled in cash, agreed upon, or were exchanged for manual labor. We were asked to come to his grandmothers house in January of 2022 to discuss descrepencies and get documents signed stating we were caught up and owed nothing. The aunt was asked to come over to discuss and things blew up. She became aggressive, confrontational, threatening, and very defensive. After some time she was asked to leave the home until we left. All of this while my children were in the next room. Very shortly after the uncle came storming in very aggressive and demanding that we leave his moms home. The grandmother told him repestedly to leave and that we had done nothing wrong and the aunt was causing trouble. As I was getting my kids ready to leave he then called the cops claiming domestic disturbance claiming we were yelling at his mom. A discussion was had at this time stating we were 20 points off of our credit score in order to assume the house. After many months of defending ourselves and showing proof of no wrong doing on our end, we received multiple calls and text messages regarding allowing the aunt into our childrens lives and if we didnt "there would be consequences." We then started receiving calls and texts stating we needed to vacate the home and our "rental agreement" was terminated. This went back and fourth for a few months due to the grandmother agreeing no wrong doing on our end and everything was fine, to she expected some sort of an apology from my husband or he could leave the house and me and my girls could stay. We told her, and she agreed, that if she ever broke our agreement, she would owe us for the money we have put into the home that "renters" do not cover. We have a ton of recorded phone calls, saved messages, and statements as proof. Due to the escalating situation, we decided it was best if we get a lawyer involved. She sent us a letter stating we had x amount of time to move out and a notice stating "rent" was being raised. We had to pay our lawyer to send a letter of demand and push all bills in order to get everything in order to protect ourselves and begin the moving process, as well as continuing to pay our agreed upon monthly payments for the house. She called and offered multiple times different amounts of money for us to move out, but refused to pay us the amount that she owed us. We told her we would leave wothout legal action if she just paid us what was owed. We offered ample amounts of proof. She kept calling offering to pay half of a new car, called offering a swing set for the girls, and called again offering to help with moving expenses. We explained to her that our lawyer sent her a letter stating we continue with our original agreement or she is to pay us x amount before we move out.

This has been a very ongoing, stressful, and exhausted process, all while going through a miscarriage and dealing with normal day to day stressors. We have been patient, kind, understanding, and have done absolutely no wrong.

We have now received a letter 8/1 stating we have 3 days to move out or a claim will be filed for unlawful detainer. We are asking for help because we have no other choice. I need to come up with a $2000 deposit for lawyer fees and then the remaining amount I'm asking for is to catch up on our bills that are now so behind its impossible to catch up.

Any amount donated would be greatly appreciated, and would help my family to be protected and to move on from these very sick and disturbed individuals. The funds will only be used for lawyer fees and past due bills. I give you the shortenend version of what happened so you understand the complexity without all the extra emotional details.

I appreciate your time, your consideration, and your willingness to read this.