Thanks, everyone.

So, get this.

AFTER I sent that email telling him I will hire a lawyer and that I think he's hid the inheritance money from me (and then blocked him), he showed up at my house.

He says it wasn't deliberate, but that IF I do hire a lawyer, he could go to jail for excluding the inheritance from his financial statement.

So, there it is... he legally should have disclosed the inheritance as part of his finances, and he says he did not include it.

He is now paying me 17K, in addition to the 5.5K he has already given me. 17K is the limit of how much "gift" money you can receive in our state without being taxed. The 5.5K he's paid already I consider as payback for the wedding/honeymoon and the chair I bought.

So, I agreed to this arrangement. I don't want him to go to jail or to get into legal trouble. He pleaded with me, so I said yes. Since it's not the money I am after, but what is right, I feel 17K is good enough, and now we're even in terms of what we've each paid for in the marriage.

Very interesting how this all unfolded....

I wonder if he excluded it deliberately from his financial statement, and if he was advised to do so by his lawyer...

it's certainly ALL very fishy given that he's been desperately trying to pay me off.

I suspect that he would have known in Oct how much he was inheriting... maybe not, but possibly. At the very least, he would have known he was getting money and it should have been included in his finances as a "pending inheritance".