Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The address on her divorce petition is a $2000/mo college rental that pales in comparison what they built.
How could they use that address if that’s not their real address? Do you know who lives at that address? Where do the Hatmaker’s really live?
Pure speculation as nearly all of these comments are.... it could be her daughter’s apt, who is going to UT. That’s what I thought when I did first read that. Perhaps her lawyer suggested she use another address for which documents and mail pertaining to the case could not be intercepted by Brandon. Sounds extreme to some, but lawyers are paid to think of everything and they nearly always think of the worst case scenario in the event things get very contentious, which often happens in divorces.
However, to answer your last question: The Hatmakers really live in an older house just off the main downtown part of Buda. Buda was a really tiny town, with one Main Street and a few stores until 15-20 years ago— there are probably 40-60 older homes (if that many). They live on one of those side streets. It’s the old farm house that they renovated and that was featured on HGTV. It sits on about 1.5 acres if I’m not mistaken.
They also bought a pretty nice lake house that sits on Lake LBJ in 2016 that appears to be in Jen’s name only. That lake is about an hour to hour and a half drive west of Austin in the Hill Country of Texas. It’s worth about $450K- $500K I believe. However, TX is a community property state- meaning without a prenup, all of their assets, no matter whose name they’re in, are split equally including retirement, houses, cash, cars, etc. Not sure how that works with future earnings contracts, like book deals. But, I believe they each would get half of what they have at the time of divorce, unless they agree to different terms. That’ doesn’t include child support for their two minor children. I’m sure that would depend on who gets custody, and what they agree to.