Laura Owens

I went back to Greg Woodnick to ask him what happens next in a situation like this.

In April 2026, after Laura's bankruptcy was dismissed, her former attorney, David Gingras, posted a video on his blog.

It's just Gingras this time, no Laura.

A lot of people don't realize this, but when you file bankruptcy or whether you do or don't file bankruptcy, courts cannot make people pay money they don't have.

In America, we used to have, I think, I don't even know the history of it, but I think in England, other countries, they had something called debtor's prisons.

So if you incurred a debt and you refused to pay it, even if you just didn't have the money because you're broke, they would throw you in jail and basically make you work off your debt.

We don't have debtors prisons in America.

If you are ordered to pay a billion dollars to somebody in damages, and if you don't have the money, you're never going to have to pay it.

They don't put you in jail.

There's no consequence for being broke.

So Laura is not going to be paying Clayton anything as a result of her bankruptcy being dismissed.

She doesn't have the money to pay him.

He's welcome to go chasing after that.

He tried to already.

So what can you do?

Nothing.

Clayton hasn't let it go.

He's still holding out hope that he'll get the court-ordered repayment from Laura Owens.

But this isn't the end of the story.

There's one more twist.