Jill Duggar, 32, revealed that her dad Jim Bob, 58, threatened to decrease her inheritance amid battles over her contract in 2018 in her new memoir Counting the Value. She revealed that she and her husband Derrick Dillard, 34, acquired an electronic mail from her dad the place he tried to “to settle this as soon as and for all,” the place he defined “prices” that Jill and Derrick had accrued as they tried to get the cash they had been owed for showing in 19 Youngsters And Counting and its spin-offs.
Jill revealed that within the electronic mail, Jim Bob defined that she would “obtain 1/nineteenth of every little thing we personal that’s arrange in a belief for you youngsters,” when he and his spouse Michelle, 56, die, however stated that may not be the case if she saved up her contract combat. “When you assault us, most likely your inheritance will probably be lowered considerably. I really like you, however I’m grieved by the disrespect and the accusations that proceed,” he wrote, in keeping with Jill.
She stated her dad made her a “one-time supply” of $20,000, but when they didn’t reply inside a sure timeframe the “quantity will probably be zero.” She revealed that the e-mail “set us again a good distance” of their relationship, and she or he defined that it was heartbreaking. “It felt chilly. It felt brutal. It damage,” she stated.
The Dillards ultimately employed a lawyer to attempt to get a duplicate of the 2014 contract that Jill signed in relation to Mad Household Inc. Jill stated that Jim Bob “went ballistic” and tried to get the couple to settle, each on his personal and by asking his different youngsters to get in contact with them. Finally, Jill and Derrick acquired $175,000.
Whereas the couple had been in El Salvador doing Mission Work, Jill was advised that she was “contractually” required to journey to take promo images for TLC. Whereas the pair refused, Jim Bob allegedly tried to guilt them into returning by saying that Jill can be sued. He additionally apparently advised Derrick that he was “failing his household and main them down a path of destruction” for violating the contract.
When it will definitely got here time for the household to signal a brand new contract with Mad Household, Jim Bob advised them that they’d every get $80,000 for signing. Derrick confronted his father-in-law in regards to the 2014 contract, and the Duggar patriarch ultimately apologized. “I’m sorry for making her comply with one thing she wasn’t obligated to,” he advised them each.
