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Monique Samuels opened up in regards to the phrases of her divorce from Chris Samuels throughout a podcast look earlier this week.
Years after quitting her position on The Actual Housewives of Potomac, Monique, 41, admitted that she doesn’t get alimony or baby assist from Chris, 47, the daddy of her three children, as she defined their prenuptial settlement and revealed what she did stroll away with after 11 years of marriage to the previous NFL participant.
“We had a prenup and after we sat all the way down to create our prenup, it was with the intention of, ‘I don’t ever need you considering I need what you’ve got or need you for what you’ve got,’” Monique started on the December 4 episode of Expensive Future Wifey, through Instagram. “I used to be working for him so the best way we did it was as if I used to be nonetheless his enterprise supervisor, no matter that wage would have been, it was simply principally like, within the occasion that we get divorced, here’s what would’ve been your wage over the previous nonetheless a few years for those who have been nonetheless working.”
Based on Monique, fairly than establishing an association with Chris that may safe her future, she merely signed an settlement that may cowl the years that she didn’t work.
“It wasn’t so I will be set if we get divorced. It was in order that, effectively I’m not working and I’m used to working and if I had labored, what would my wage have been?” she shared. “After which we simply made that accrue yearly for the wedding. And it was alleged to be one thing that went up yearly however in good religion … I’m like, ‘Hear, this isn’t why I’m right here, so simply hold in the identical quantity throughout the board.’”
Over a yr and a half after submitting for divorce, Monique admitted the choice to forgo future funds from Chris “was most likely silly,” particularly contemplating the three children she would go on to have with Chris weren’t factored into the settlement.
“So after we finalized every thing, the prenup [was] already set. There’s no alimony. I don’t get any cash from him, like in any respect,” she confirmed. “I may have — like most ladies do — they sometimes will go after full custody of the youngsters, after which there’s this entire battle for baby assist. I mentioned, ‘I’m not happening that highway,’ as a result of on the finish of the day, that’s not why I used to be ever right here. [So] I don’t get any baby assist.”
What Monique did get was one lump sum, which she used to buy her house.
“I wished to guarantee that my kids had their very own bedrooms. I wished to ensure they may come from their house, which I created in Potomac, however I wished them to come back to this new house and nonetheless really feel prefer it’s house,” she defined.
Monique Samuels appeared in a full-time position on The Actual Housewives of Potomac from season two by way of season 5.
