Ryan Edwards is aiming to walk away from his divorce from wife Mackenzie Standifer with more than $300,000 in marital property– including half of the equity from the former couple’s home that the Teen Mom dad allegedly destroyed in February 2023.
In court documents obtained by YouTuber Elle Bee detailing the soon-to-be former spouses’ proposed division of marital property, it was revealed that Ryan is requesting that he be awarded a Ford F150 truck (valued at $25,000), a Harley Davidson motorcycle (valued at $15,000) and a covered trailer (valued at $7,000). The father of four is also asking that Mackenzie pay him $75,000 for tools and $100,000 for a “race car,” as well as half of the equity of their marital home, which he claims to be more than $40,000.
The home Ryan is referring to in the court documents– which was purchased in 2019 in Mackenzie’s name only, despite she and Ryan being married at the time– happens to be the home that Ryan allegedly destroyed in early 2023, which Mackenzie has since completely restored.
Despite Mackenzie paying to repair the damage allegedly caused by Ryan, the ‘Teen Mom’ dad is requesting that he and Mackenzie split equity of the home, which is listed at $80,250 total.
In addition to half of their home’s equity, Ryan is requesting that Mackenzie be awarded a Jeep Cherokee and a jet ski– the latter of which Ryan previously accused Mackenzie of selling or disposing of.
As The Ashley told you in February, Ryan was ordered to begin paying Mackenzie $1,553 in monthly child support for their two children, Jagger and Stella. (Ryan also shares 16-year-old son Bentley with ex Maci Bookout and newborn daughter Presley with fiancée Amanda Conner.)
In court documents filed earlier this year, Ryan listed his monthly income at $16,010, while his “good faith estimate” of Mackenzie’s monthly income was listed as $4,166. Ryan reportedly earns a $35,000 paycheck for each episode of ‘Teen Mom’ that he appears in and, as The Ashley previously reported, he also began working a “regular” job in August, earning approximately $27 an hour as a diesel mechanic.
While Ryan is seemingly doing well financially, he claimed in February to be in massive debt, revealing in court documents that he had $18,000 in credit card debt, around $2,200 in his personal checking account (as of September 2024) and only $57.47 in a joint checking account he has with his mother, Jen Edwards. He also indicated that he didn’t have a savings account or retirement plan and claimed to have debt from his 2020 and 2021 income taxes.
In the latest court documents, Ryan proposed that he and Mackenzie each take responsibility for half of the tax liability (the amount of which was not disclosed) and that he take responsibility for two Capital One credit cards– one obtained in 2017 that has a balance of $4,200 and another obtained in 2018 with a balance of $4,500.
Mackenzie has not yet responded to Ryan’s requests. However, she and Ryan are due in court next week to address the case, as well as the contempt charges Ryan is trying to file on Mackenzie.
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I hope Mack takes him to the cleaners honestly. What he is asking for is unreal, in addition to the hell and torture he put her, the kids and that house through.
Do the right thing Ryan. Walk away without anything you haven’t lived with in the past 3 years and pay your child support.
Ryan is really a nasty and vengeful piece of sh…..
if he were a real man he would say sorry and let her be happy..
what a nasty mean junkie he is!!!!
Where are all the Ryan supporters? Ya’ll are being AWFULLY quiet right now! I officially feel so bad for Mack. I’ve dealt with a POS like Ryan and it fucking SUCKS. For you. For the kids.
And the fact that everyone around him continues to support his bullshit, including Maci, just pisses me off even more. For the show or not, it’s absolute shit to support a man treating the mother of 2 of his children this way. I don’t care what she did, said, whatever, Mack does NOT deserve this shit and neither do her babies.
This is exactly why when any commenter posts something like “Ryan seems to be doing super well! He’s sober and seems to love his newest baby momma….” it makes me want to downvote and then throw up a little.
He’s not changed at all. He can’t be a “good dad” to Bentley (suddenly), and the new baby… if he’s a horrible dad to his other 2 kids in between Bentley and the newest one. It shows that he doesn’t care if a child is his son or daughter, if only matters if he’s interested in being “nice” to their mother!
It’s so obvious that he “cares” about whatever kids are in front of him…when “whatever kid is in front of him” is mostly down to whatever baby-mama he’s having a relationship with at that time.
He’s not a good person or dad! He can’t pretend to like whatever kid is in front of him as long as he likes their mother and knows their mother will be housing for and caring for the kid, without any child support from him.
Notice how the first time a baby-mama (Mackenzie) went in for child support, he counter-sued to make HER pay HIM child support!?
Nah, f*ck this guy. Look, congrats on getting sober, but what he did to his face own kids house is unforgivable. Not only should he get nothing, he should owe Mackenzie for what she had to pay for the damages he caused
What a POS. Give her the house as she is raising your kids full time. He is making way more than her and should put the kids home and safety first.
I can’t remember from previous articles but did Mackenzie ever file charges or file a police report against Ryan and whoever helped him destroy the house? If she did I hope she can use that to her legal advantage. He definitely doesn’t deserve a dime from that house!
Amanda better be sitting up and taking notes, because she’s next on Ryan’s shit list.
And this is exactly why people continue to “hate” on him and his “progress.” His path to redemption is for the show. There is nothing genuine about it. This is not a guy who is sorry about trashing his children’s home or ensuring that they have any stability. He has no remorse because this is exactly who he is, clean or not. He has never been a good person and this just further confirms it.
Exactly! We watched Ryan as a teen…he was an asshole. We’ve seen him when he was sober…he was an asshole. If Ryan had never touched a drug or drink in his entire life, he would still be an asshole. He’s exactly how his parents raised him to be, an entitled, unsympathetic man child.
Yup. And I’ve noticed that all of his supporters are very silent on this post. It’s indefensible. He’s just always been a bad person.
Exactly. Even if he’s not shooting up, he’s still got the dopehead mentality because he’s not taking accountability for all the things he’s done.
It’s literally like he was raised with it! Nothing is ever his fault. Other people (mostly women or even teen girls younger than him) somehow both charm him into impregnating them, but then also don’t “treat him well enough” (like his mommy Jen did)…so whatever he did to “cope” with being asked to step up to any responsibility, is “mean.”
All his past Baby Mama’s wanting him to parent, even a little, were “being mean” to “Poor baby Ryan who can’t possible be held accountable for the stuff he does or destroys!!”
Ryan was the rare Teen Mom example of someone who had parents willing to cover for him, parent for him, lie for him, swallow their pride and say “oh, newest baby mama to our son…it’s not that he sucks as a person…it’s just that he’s so busy with work/hanging out with us/being in rehab….”
Yep. He was coddled to his own detriment. There was a little while there were Larry was done with his shit and calling Jen out on how she babies him his whole life and that that’s why he turned out like he did.
My ex-husband, who also has dopehead mentality with or without hitting the pipe, has a mama that does whatever she can to make sure his grown ass never has to face a real consequence and outright lies to me or whoever else for his behavior (does the same for his brother and one of his sisters, but it’s the worst with him because he’s also the “baby” of the bunch). They don’t have money, so she can’t really manipulate the legal system for him like Jen has done with Ryan, thankfully, but it’s still hindered him to the point that he’s incapable of being a normal, functioning adult.
This type of parenting is such an indicator for them growing up like shit that you can often predict which kids are going to end up on that path. It’s the parents that never want to believe their kid is acting up at school and blame the teachers for everything, even though they’re kid is a monster at home too.
Goodness gracious at the typos. 🤦🏼♀️
This time next year it’s going to be the SAME story with a NEW BABY MAMA! I don’t believe for one SECOND he’s going to NOW suddenly be a great father. Hope he (and the new next Ex) stay sober, but seriously. He isn’t thinking one second about how what he’s asking is going to completely destroy the children he HAS WITH MACKENZIE! I mean, he just spent last week slobbering all over Bentley, apologizing for “not being there” for most of his life, because he was “going through stuff”, but he’ll throw his other younger children into turmoil because he’s a moron? I hope the judge laughs in his face. Can someone maybe set him up with Jenelle? They’d make a pair wouldn’t they!? CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!!??
I’ve been drunk before and drunk texted or said something to someone, and the amount of shame and regret that followed when I sobered up, was immense. I really don’t the people like this. You really screwed up Ryan. You didn’t just hurt your wife mentally and emotionally, you hurt your innocent children too. No matter whats gone on between you and her, no matter what your drug addiction did to you, these actions are inexcusable. The way Ryan just moved on, started a whole new family, then proceeded to behave like Mac is the bad guy, it is disgustingly and the lack of remorse is actually scary.
It’s the way he continues to torture her, and the way any of his people help him with it, that shows he hasn’t changed. Maybe he’s sober, but he’s still a rotten husband and father.
He was always a horrible person, sober or not. He constantly left Maci with Bentley so he could “go out” while she was trying to study for something (I don’t remember if was GED or freshman year of college).
And then when he got with Mackenzie, he was so obviously terrible that a lot of us on here were like, “WTF Mackenzie!?!?!!!??? Why are you marrying someone so high he’s nodding out on the way to YOUR WEDDING!?”
We know he’s an asshole. None of this is just “we decided to divorce amicably for the children…” It’s almost like he’s trying to erase the wife and kids he had when he was deepest in his addiction, and move on with his new lady and their kids…and he’s willing to also accept very and his ex-relationship with Maci……
But whatever happened with Mackenzie and those 2 kids is too shameful for him to accept and make amends with, so he’s just fighting her (and thus that whole part of his addiction life) thru the divorce courts. And he’s asking for more than 50/50 BECAUSE he wants the court to somehow “prove” he didn’t destroy the family home.
He’s just 100% NOT doing recovery how it’s meant to be done.
I feel like it would be fair that he get half the value of the house, but only on the value of the home after he destroyed, like have a realtor price out what the house would have sold for from the police body cam and photos.
Or he can have half, but prior has to pay back every cent of the cost to fix it, plus the things that Mack hasn’t been able to afford to fix, that he destroyed.
All these “debts” and “tax issues” can be verified very easy, and he’s just stalling, he could easily submit his tax forms for the last 5 years, to include the supposed tax issues. Rhine has abused the courts and will continue to, as along as no one holds him accountable.
Do you know if he ever put toward the house? I mean, like mortgage payments etc? If the house is only in her name and she’s the only one who actually paid toward it…
But I guess in the state they live, even if the house is only in one name it will be considered “marital property”.
This guy exemplifies what is wrong with humanity. He’s a waste. Total and complete. Yet he keeps breeding……
I’m in total support of Ryan and his sobriety but come on…this is just to much. Give her the house so she can raise the children in a safe and stable home.
Rhine is too selfish to realize that it’s to his benefit for Mack to be able to financial afford things for his kids. The less strain on her, the better his kids life will be, she’s still the primary parent.
Rhine is such an AH that he would rather burn his money in front of Mack or spend years in court paying a fortune in legal fees than give Mack even an inch.
But he also doesn’t get why she’s not nice to him, or why they have a bad co-parenting relationship. Also, if he really wants to marry Amanda as much as he claims, well the faster you settle your divorce, the fast you can kiss your
mommybride that the altar for your second wedding.I’ll never forget how I dropped my son off with his father one Saturday morning that just so happened to be child support day and payday where I got a bonus. So when I picked up our son that evening, I’d gotten my hair done and a massage and a mani/pedi and had shopping bags in the car and just had myself an AMAZING kid free day. My ex didn’t say a single word about it. Now maybe he complained to his new girlfriend but he didn’t even try to bust out an “oh this is how you spend the child support?!” I could afford to treat myself because I’d taken care of everything that our son needed and my ex knew that.
Give him back his worthless shit. If it’s still there, that is. He was probably high af and destroyed it all anyways.
This is the “great guy”?? Superdad? Super partner???
Yeah right.
He’s a massive POS. It doesn’t matter if he’s not currently a junkie or if he apologized to Bentley after 16 years of being a deadbeat, he’s still a deadbeat to half of his children. He’s trash and he’ll always be, and so is Maci and every person that sings his praises.
I love how he claims to be in “massive debt” when the amount he says that he owes can be paid off with his paycheck from being on just ONE episode of the show. People who are actually in “massive debt” don’t earn $35,000 each time they’re on TV for less than an hour a few times a month. Shut the hell up, Ryan. Don’t insult people who *actually* have the problem he claims to have without the means to cover it (and still have money left over) like he does.
It’s almost like he could pay it off, but he has a financial incentive to not pay it off so that in court he can legal claim all these debts….
he’s so gross!
What a joke of a human being. She had to pay for the repairs of that house after he destroyed it. She’s had to pay the mortgage alone while also taking care of the kids alone until he was forced to pay (and that amount is so low given what he earns from MTV). Most, if not all, of that debt is probably a direct result of his drug use. Any judge worth a damn would laugh at his request and raise child support.