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Shockeye
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on: January 03, 2006, 11:27:31 AM

Quote from: Sun-Sentinel
Wife says divorce is news to her

A lawsuit accuses an ex-Casselberry official of divorcing without telling her.

Rene Stutzman
Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted January 3 2006

Jan 3, 2006
   
SANFORD -- First, Renzie Davidson told his wife he wanted a divorce. He filed for one at the Seminole County Courthouse. Then he told her he had changed his mind, that he wanted her to be his wife forever. So, together they stayed.

That was four years ago. Two weeks ago, Davidson's wife, Sally A. Erickson, sued him for fraud.

Turns out, he secretly went back to court and got a default judgment against her, she says. The couple have been legally divorced for more than two years.

She says she never knew. Court and county land records seem to bear out her claims.

They show that Davidson, 62, of Oviedo was granted an uncontested divorce Feb. 19, 2003, without his wife's ever appearing in court or filing a single piece of paper.

They also show that, just three months ago, the two of them, as husband and wife, got a $175,000 mortgage on a Winter Springs home. Both Erickson and Davidson, "her spouse," according to the mortgage, signed it and put their initials at the bottom of each page.

According to her lawsuit, Erickson, 61, a Winter Park mental-health counselor, didn't find out about the divorce until November.

Exactly how she found out is not clear. She would not discuss the case.

"This is something that's personal," she said.

"It's not something I want to discuss with anyone."

Davidson, who served as Casselberry's fire marshal for eight years until he was fired for "poor performance" in 2004, also would not talk about it.

Prenuptial deal signed

The couple wed July 3, 2001.

He was a widower, lonely and living in a sprawling but cluttered house that he owned free and clear near Black Hammock in central Seminole County.

She was a divorcee, living in an Altamonte Springs apartment.

How they met is not clear. But the day they got married, they signed a prenuptial agreement.

The way it divides their property, should they divorce, is straightforward:

Each would walk away with what he or she brought into the marriage. Neither would get alimony, and any money or belongings either acquired while married, they would keep.

Davidson estimated his net worth at $375,000. Erickson never filled out a financial statement.

What comes next in the prenup -- 10 rules on how they would live as a couple -- is more unusual.

Paragraph 10 reads: "Sally will cook breakfast a minimum of 3 times during the weekdays, and one time per weekend. In return, Renzie will not wake Sally up on her 'off days.' "

Paragraph 11: "Renzie will rub Sally's back/neck 3 times during the weekdays, and one time per weekend for a minimum of 5 minutes, but hopefully more, each time."

Paragraph 17 states that "each time Sally . . . regretfully uses the "F" word, she agrees to do one hour of yardwork within the next 7 days. Likewise, Renzie will put $5 in Sally's cookie jar each time he complains, nags or otherwise makes a fuss about Sally's expenditures. . . ."

Just 3 1/2 months after they signed the agreement and were married, Davidson filed for divorce. He did the paperwork himself, without hiring a lawyer. Their assets and debts, he wrote, had already been divided as spelled out in the prenuptial agreement.

Erickson was served notice of the divorce suit six days later, which she acknowledges, but she says in court pleadings that Davidson then intentionally misled her, saying he had dropped the whole thing.

For a time, it appears he did. After he filed for divorce, nothing happened in the case for 1 1/2 years. Then, in February 2003, he asked for a default judgment in his favor and got it.

He appeared before Circuit Judge James E.C. Perry on Feb. 19, 2003 -- Erickson was absent, according to court minutes -- and the judge formally ended their marriage.

'Different sort of lawsuit'

One neighbor said folks thought the couple had been divorced for many months. Erickson spent very little time at the house, he said.

But according to Erickson's suit, they lived as husband and wife, filed joint tax returns and Davidson kept her on his health-insurance plan through his city job.

Andrew Zelman, Erickson's lawyer, is asking that the divorce judgment be set aside.

The case, he conceded, "is a very different sort of lawsuit."

Davidson, honored in 1999 as Fire Marshal of the Year and now operator of a home-repair business, is not contesting Erickson's claim.

On Dec. 23, serving as his own attorney, he filed paperwork asking the judge to throw out the divorce.

I think that has to be one of the best pre-nups ever.
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