A DUGGAR member of the family is going through jail time for defying an Arkansas decide’s court docket order after failing to pay $156,909.96 in overdue lease in a nasty lawsuit. 

Amy Duggar’s husband, Dillon King, was sued for failing to pay lease on his Springdale, Arkansas restaurant Wellington’s, which is now closed, in January 2024. 

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On January 2, 2025, a judgment was entered in opposition to Dillon within the quantity of $156,909.96 and was signed off by the Arkansas decide on the case. 

The judgment additionally ordered Dillon to “describe all of his property, each actual and private, together with moneys, financial institution accounts, rights, and credit” inside 45 days of the order.

The U.S. Solar can completely reveal landlord Hillcrest Holdings, LLC is demanding Dillon be jailed for going in opposition to the decide’s ruling by not making a cost in the direction of the judgment. 

On March 12, the plaintiff within the case, Hillcrest Holdings, LLC, filed a Movement for Contempt Quotation and for Sanctions. 

The court docket papers claimed, “On January 2, 2025, the Court docket entered its Consent Judgment in opposition to Dillon King within the quantity of $156,909.96. 

“King has not paid the Consent Judgment or any a part of it selecting, as a substitute, to place the plaintiff to the arduous and costly activity of attempting to determine methods to gather from him.”

The paperwork continued, “Additionally on January 2, 2025, the plaintiff filed its Discover of Deposition directing King to seem for a deposition on February 11, 2025, and to deliver the paperwork listed therein with him to the deposition. 

“On February 7, 2025, the Court docket entered an Agreed Order whereby it ordered and directed King to provide the paperwork set forth within the plaintiff’s Discover of Deposition by no later than February 11, 2025.

“Greater than 45 days have elapsed because the entry of the Consent Judgment. King has didn’t adjust to the Court docket’s Consent Judgment in that the schedule of property he filed on February 14, 2025, doesn’t listing all of his belongings.”

The Plaintiff claimed Dillon has “willfully and deliberately pissed off and delayed the plaintiff’s efforts to gather the Consent Judgment by failing and refusing to adjust to this Court docket’s prior orders and the plaintiff’s Discover of Deposition and Subpoena.”

The owner then requested for Dillon to be jailed, because the court docket paperwork learn, “The Court docket ought to impose acceptable sanctions in opposition to King together with, however not restricted to, incarcerating him within the Washington County Jail till he has complied with this Court docket’s prior orders and the Discover of Deposition and Subpoena.”

Earlier than the Plaintiff’s request for him to be held in contempt, Dillon has been preventing the Consent Judgment.

On January 29, Dillon filed a Movement to Quash, which suggests to void a court docket order or continuing. 

Within the court docket papers, he objected to a deposition and a subpoena for manufacturing of paperwork and data, claiming it’s “irrelevant, and pointless.”

A listening to for the Movement for Contempt Quotation and for Sanctions will happen on Could 6, 2025. 

UNPAID RENT LAWSUIT

The U.S. Solar beforehand reported that landlord Hillcrest Holdings, LLC sued Winston Holdings, LLC, aka Wellington’s, Dillon and two enterprise companions for unpaid lease for the Springdale, Arkansas location. 

In August 2018, the plaintiff and defendants entered right into a lease settlement to lease the property from September 2018 to December 2023. 

In July 2023, Dillon and his enterprise companions allegedly “vacated the premises which constitutes as a default of the lease and a cloth breach of contract.”

The court docket papers continued to assert, “Winston Holdings, LLC didn’t make the required month-to-month lease funds to the plaintiff as required by the lease after June 2023, and its failure to make mentioned funds constitutes a default of the lease and a cloth breach of contract.”

In February 2024, the defendants responded to the lawsuit by denying the allegations and claimed, “Defendants solely admit they ceased making funds after Plaintiff refused to speak after a number of good religion makes an attempt.”

They requested the criticism be dismissed. 

Dillon admitted in court docket papers that “sure funds weren’t made to the Plaintiff, however failure for such funds to be tendered had been after good religion makes an attempt had been made to pay, and to speak with the Plaintiff. 

“It’s denied {that a} materials breach occurred.”

A consent judgment, which is a settlement settlement, was then filed on January 2, 2025 within the quantity of $156,909.96. 

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SECOND LAWSUIT

This lawsuit got here simply months earlier than Dillon, Winston Holdings, LLC and his two enterprise companions had been sued for unpaid lease of the Wellington’s location in Rogers, Arkansas on April 2, 2024. 

The U.S. Solar beforehand reported from court docket papers, “Tenant has didn’t pay Minimal Lease in full every month. Tenant has since made rental funds however has not paid all unpaid lease.

“Because the Last Discover of Default, Tenant has paid the next quantities in the direction of its steadiness: $23,239.92 on January 25, 2024, $10,000 on February 15, 2024, and $10,000 on March 5, 2024. 

“Regardless of these funds, tenant has but to pay Landlord the total unpaid steadiness.”

The lawsuit claims Defendants at the moment owe $86,683.30, plus future lease. 

On October 14, 2024, the Plaintiff and Defendant Winston Holdings, LLC filed that they’ve entered into an settlement. 

The court docket papers learn, “The Events have agreed that judgment be entered in favor of the Plaintiff, Hachem Investments, INC, in opposition to Defendant, Winston Holdings, LLC, for breach of contract as alleged within the Criticism, within the quantity of $240,000. 

“The events additional agree that Plaintiff, Hachem Investments, INC, is awarded recoverable prices of $844.60 and cheap attorneys’ charges of $18,982.50 as a part of this Consent Judgment. That the Plaintiff’s judgment shall bear curiosity on the fee of 10% every year till paid in full.”

On December 19, 2024, Hachem Investments, INC claimed Dillon “signed the Settlement Settlement on October 14, 2024.”

The court docket papers allege Dillon was ordered to pay $50,000 in two separate installments, per the settlement settlement.

They declare he paid the primary installment, however missed the cost deadline of December 13, 2024 for the remaining $25,000. 

The court docket papers continued, “King has refused to carry out his obligation to pay the remaining $25,000 he owes pursuant to the Settlement Settlement.

The Plaintiff requested the Court docket enter a judgment in opposition to King per the Settlement Settlement.

“The Settlement Settlement gives that if Dillon King fails to make well timed or full installment funds, he shall be deeded to have confessed to judgment within the lawsuit for $236,728.08, much less any installment of the $50,000 that has been well timed paid,” the court docket papers learn.

On December 23, an Arkansas decide signed off on the judgment, because the court docket papers learn, “It’s due to this fact ordered and Adjudged that Plaintiff has closing judgment in opposition to Separate Defendant Dillon King per the Settlement Settlement for the quantity of $236,728.08, much less any installment of the $50,000 that has been well timed made.”

DILLON FIGHTS BACK

Dillon responded to the judgment on January 1, preventing the court docket’s determination to order him to pay the total quantity of $236,728.08.

The court docket submitting learn, “It’s admitted that the settlement was signed, and the primary cost was made. Nonetheless, the remaining allegations are denied – and cost has been provided. 

“King denies legal responsibility and the damages owed… Pleading alternatively, any legal responsibility derived (which is denied) can be required to return from a breach of contract declare and new motion, quite than a Movement, for a defaulted judgment, after a settlement settlement is negotiated and executed.

“One can’t confess to a judgment with out executing or signing a judgment, with out the cloaking powers of a judgeship.”

Dillon argued the Movement for a Judgment was “wrongly entered.”

He additionally claimed the judgment was entered earlier than he had the chance to file a response and contest it.

Dillon continued, “King requests this Court docket to rethink its ruling, vacate, the judgment, and permit the right responding pleadings and briefs to be filed, along with a listening to on the deserves be heard to guard the integrity and arguments of the events for attraction, or to protect therein.”

Plaintiff Hachem Investments, INC. responded on January 3, 2025, “Dillon King signed a settlement settlement with Plaintiff on this case. 

“The Settlement required him to make two settlement funds by sure dates. He didn’t make the second cost. The Settlement gives that if he fails to make a cost, Plaintiff might search sure damages, curiosity, and charges ‘by means of movement’ to this Court docket, and that King ‘shall be deemed to have confessed to judgment’ for these damages, curiosity, and charges. 

“Plaintiff did so on December 19. Now King successfully seeks to rescind the Settlement that he negotiated and signed. However King can’t renege on his Settlement now. The Court docket ought to deny each the Set Apart Movement and Reconsideration Movement.”

On January 13, the Plaintiff filed a Writ of Garnishment, which might permit a creditor to take wages from an employer or funds from a checking account, in opposition to Dillon for $234,844.587.

The case was formally dismissed on March 24 on the request of the plaintiff. 

Amy, 38, beforehand instructed The U.S. Solar on behalf of her husband, “We are going to inform our facet when the time is correct. Nevertheless it’s not the fitting time in the mean time.”

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AMY’S LAWSUIT

Amy and Dillon had been beforehand hit with a lawsuit for unpaid lease in Could 2022 for her retailer 3130 Clothes. 

Amy and Dillon entered right into a five-year lease settlement on October 8, 2018, for $3,332.83 a month for her clothes retailer. 

On June 1, 2019, the couple added a second suite to the lease settlement, as lease elevated to $6,665.66 a month till Could 31, 2024. 

The criticism learn, “3130 occupied the premises till August 2021, at which era it vacated the premises which constitutes a default of the Lease and Modification and a breach of contract.

“3130 didn’t make the required month-to-month lease funds to the plaintiff as required by the Lease and Modification after June 2021.”

The owner requested unpaid lease from June 2021, plus court docket prices, curiosity, and legal professional’s charges. 

Amy and Dillon responded to the lawsuit by admitting they vacated the premises in August 2021, however insisted the owner was the one who “dedicated a previous materials breach of the Lease and Settlement.”

Amy and Dillon then filed a counterclaim in opposition to the owner, arguing that in line with the lease, they’d a Tenant Enchancment allowance within the quantity of $31,250 for contractors to enhance the leased house. 

Any value over the agreed quantity can be paid by Amy and Dillon. 

In late 2018, the owner employed a common contractor to carry out renovations on the 2 suites. 

The court docket papers claimed, “Landlord then deducted these fees from 3130, LLC’s Tenant Enchancment allowance and charged Counterclaimants for, what was represented to be, all prices in extra of the allowance.”

They had been allegedly charged $66,486, together with late charges.

The papers continued to assert, “Nonetheless, Counterclaimants didn’t obtain any supporting invoices on the time of the costs. 

“Upon info and perception, Landlord charged Counterclaimants in extra of the quantities really charged by [the contractor] or different contractors in violation of the Lease and Modification. 

“Landlord additionally charged Counterclaimants for work carried out at items apart from Suites B or C, or for work that benefitted all items at 7321 West Sundown that had been to not be charged as a part of the TI allowance settlement.”

The criticism and counterclaim had been finally dismissed.

Amy completely instructed The U.S. Solar on the time of the result, “It’s been a yr because the break-in. It’s been an extended authorized course of. I think about the result a win. I really feel like I can breathe now.”

ABOUT AMY

Amy, who lives in Rogers, Arkansas along with her husband and their son, Daxton, appeared on the household’s actuality present 19 Children and Counting. 

She was generally known as the “insurgent” member of the family, as she didn’t adhere to Jim Bob and Michelle’s strict costume code and way of life. 

She has distanced herself from her uncle Jim Bob, aunt Michelle and most of her cousins.

Amy has been outspoken about her cousin Josh, who’s at the moment serving a 151-month sentence at FCI Seagoville in Dallas, Texas on little one pornography fees. 

She beforehand instructed The U.S. Solar forward of his 2022 sentencing that she hoped he would get the utmost sentence of 20 years behind bars. 

“There’s a bible verse, Luke 17:2. ‘It’s higher to hold a millstone over your head and soar into the ocean in case you’re going to harm certainly one of my little ones,’” she mentioned.

“I’m positive he’s watched a number of youngsters get damage. If the bible says soar within the ocean and drown, how lengthy would that equal in jail?

“It’s not justice for the kids. There’ll by no means be justice for the kids. Twenty years isn’t sufficient.”

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