In the latest episode of Sister Wives, Meri Brown shed light on the breakdown of her family’s funds — and she claimed it wasn’t always fair.
“His whole big thing then was I would get two acres. Two acres,” Meri, 53, told her pal Jen during the Sunday, January 19, episode of the TLC series, alleging that ex-husband Kody Brown never intended to give her an equal share of their family’s Coyote Pass property. “He’s like, ‘Well, you don’t need as much because you don’t have as many kids.’”
Jen pointed out that Meri “paid equally” into the plot of land, which is in Flagstaff, Arizona, despite the fact that she only shares one child, Leon, with Kody, 55.
“I don’t know if they don’t remember, like, when our funds were all together and those family funds that I helped with went to the kids’ college, went to property,” Meri explained. “It went to everything. We had a family fund.”
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Jen quickly reminded Meri that not only did she put money into the family bank when she was married to Kody, but that money “paid out for the majority of the kids’ colleges, but not Leon’s.”
Jen alleged that the family fund “went to the majority of the kids’ cars, but not Leon’s,” which Meri confirmed. “I paid for Leon’s college,” Meri said, adding that she paid for her child’s “car payments” as well — and didn’t use the family slush.
Meri confessed: “I really don’t know how much of the family fund actually paid for other kids’ school or cars, but I know that my kiddo’s school was not taken care of from the family fund.”
Although she was married to Kody the longest, Meri claimed she never got an even share of the money her sister wives all pulled together for their plural family.
“Kody has actually said this: ‘Because I only have one child, I am not entitled to an equal portion of the property,’” Meri alleged, once again referring to the sale of their communal land.
Meri and Kody were legally married from 1990 to 2014. They got divorced so Kody could wed fourth wife Robyn Brown and legally adopt her three children from a prior relationship. Meri and Kody remained in a spiritual union until she confirmed their separation in January 2023.
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Along with Leon, Kody welcomed six children with both Janelle Brown and Christine Brown before their respective breakups. (Janelle announced her split in December 2022, while Christine left the plural family in 2021.)
Kody is still married to Robyn, 46, with whom he shares three adoptive children and two biological kids.
“We had 18 kids to take care of. You know, that’s just water under the bridge,” Kody told the cameras during Sunday’s episode while discussing the division of assets. “I don’t even want to discuss it. Meri can do all the complaining about whatever happened that she wants.”
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While Kody tried to ignore Meri’s claims, she remained adamant that she deserves to get some money from their Coyote Pass property — as does Janelle. (Christine gave her portion of the land to Robyn and Kody after her divorce and kept the money from selling her Arizona home.)
“I put a lot into this marriage emotionally, financially [and] personally. I didn’t get anything out of it as far as, like, alimony or whatever. And I’m not looking for that,” Meri concluded. “So I think it’s fair [I get] the property investment. I think it’s fair that I walk away with that at least.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Kody met with a realtor to list Coyote Pass but didn’t keep Janelle or Meri in the loop. The women, meanwhile, both retained attorneys to try and protect their rights to the land.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
