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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 function 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 youngsters, 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 once we sat all the way down to create our prenup, it was with the intention of, ‘I don’t ever need you pondering I would like what you might have or need you for what you might have,’” Monique started on the December 4 episode of Expensive Future Wifey, by way of 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 mainly like, within the occasion that we get divorced, here’s what would’ve been your wage over the previous nevertheless a few years when you had been nonetheless working.”
In line with Monique, relatively than organising an association with Chris that might safe her future, she merely signed an settlement that might cowl the years that she didn’t work.
“It wasn’t so I may be set if we get divorced. It was in order that, properly 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, ‘Pay attention, this isn’t why I’m right here, so simply maintain in the identical quantity throughout the board.’”
Over a 12 months and a half after submitting for divorce, Monique admitted the choice to forgo future funds from Chris “was in all probability silly,” particularly contemplating the three youngsters she would go on to have with Chris weren’t factored into the settlement.
“So once we finalized all the pieces, 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 girls do — they usually will go after full custody of the children, after which there’s this complete 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 needed to be sure that my youngsters had their very own bedrooms. I needed to ensure they may come from their house, which I created in Potomac, however I needed 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 function on The Actual Housewives of Potomac from season two by way of season 5.
