The woman answered, "From Ted and Associates."
When Marsha opened her eyes, she was stretched out on the couple's lounge chair. She had fainted and was unconscious for about two minutes.
The woman asked if she should call a doctor, but Marsha declined.
The woman then said, "If you need a place to stay while the ownership confusion is being straightened out, you are welcome to stay in our guesthouse."
After composing herself, Marsha thanked the woman but turned down the gesture and left.
Regrettably, she did not have a copy of the deed with her and could not remember where she had placed the document, which named her as the rightful owner, but as she was about to discover, it would not have mattered.
Marsha got a room at a bed and breakfast inn. After settling in, she started to map out her course of battle.
She first went to the realty company that sold the property to Ted and Associates. They showed her documents, which designated Ted as the owner of the house.
However, she never remembered adding his name to the deed. To say she was confused was like saying she was from another planet and could not recall how she landed on earth.
With a copy of that document, she went to the hall of records to file a complaint. If she thought she was going to receive assistance, she was sadly in the wrong.
The clerk could do nothing, because Marsha was married to Ted when she received the house and agreed to give it to him in the divorce settlement. The clerk showed her the divorce creed, which she had signed, giving ownership of the house to Ted.
Marsha sat there as though a mallet had knocked her into a trance.
When Ted applied for his quickie divorce in Delaware, he had the lawyer include a clause in the divorce papers that read:
As a final settlement, Ted will receive all real properties obtained before he came into the marriage and all real properties obtained during the years he and Marsha were married.
She signed those papers and remembered reading that paragraph but thought it meant the apartment building that Ted had before they met and the parcel of land he was supposedly going to purchase before their divorce.
Unfortunately, after receiving those papers, she never consulted with a lawyer, which was an expensive mistake on her part.
Marsha finally woke up. She was the victim of a diabolical scheme, a plot that she would have never wished on her worst enemy. Moreover, the deception took place right under her eyes. From the beginning until the end, Ted was setting her up for the big fall.