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Reputed wife being forced out of family home
What happened to me should be a wake-up call for women ….
By Latoya Giles
After living with her reputed husband for over 30 years, one Mocha Arcadia woman is at the centre of a battle for a home the two shared throughout their union. According to the mother of five, Brenda Williams, she’s being forced out of a home she helped purchase with her reputed husband who migrated to the United States several years ago.
Brenda Williams
Williams told Kaieteur News that about six years ago her husband with whom she had lived since she was 17 years old, asked her to press his clothing because he was going to a funeral. “He got up good….asked me to press his clothes and I did because he was going to a funeral.”
The woman said that unknown to her, her reputed husband got married that same afternoon to a woman he had shared another relationship with. “He got married behind my back I knew nothing about it,” Williams said.
Months passed before the woman had any knowledge that the father of her children was married. Six months after the wedding, a letter from the US Embassy was delivered to the house.
“When I saw the letter it had a stamp…I went to him and asked what it was about and he denied that it was for him…I even collapsed in front of him in disbelief”, Williams told Kaieteur News. The woman said that it was in 2006 that she realized that his sister had filed for him and four of her children.
According to Williams when her reputed husband and the four children migrated in 2006, she was shocked tofind out that he had secretly married someone in Guyana. “After the children just go up to the US…they called and told me that their father had married someone and she came up to the States,” Williams said.
The woman said that her entire world came crashing down. “How could people be so heartless…I really can’t get that part,” Williams said.
Williams said that after migrating, her husband would call periodically to talk about the children. However on his return to Guyana in 2008, Williams said that he informed her that she needed to vacate the house they once shared.
According to Williams, she immediately asked why she had to vacate the house since they both paid for the house and land.
Williams said that after her husband made the threat to her, she went to the Deeds Registry only to find out that he had failed to put her name on the Transport for the property. A few days later after her visit to the Deeds Registry, her husband came and tore down the front steps to the house.
The woman said that she made a report to the Providence Police Station and her husband was arrested, but later released. Upon his release, Williams said he returned to the US.
The woman said that the bickering between them continued over the years up until present day. According to her, the man returned to Guyana recently and intensified his attempts to get her out of the house.
The house which the woman is being asked to give up.
“He sent me a lawyer’s letter which requested that I leave April 31, 2014….but I not moving because April ain’t got 31 days,” the woman told Kaieteur News. Williams said that her reputed husband along with lawyers are continuously calling and trying to get her out of the home.
She said that she intends to fight the matter until the end, because she had gone through so much with her reputed husband.
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