David Eason is claiming he’s nearly $50k in debt and no longer able to afford the criminal defense attorney his now-estranged wife, Jenelle Evans, had been shelling out the cash for before their split, The Ashley can exclusively reveal.
After David was charged with child abuse in October 2023, following an incident in September in which Jenelle’s teen son Jace told authorities that he was assaulted by David, Jenelle hired (and paid for) attorneys William and Tara Gore to defend her then-soulmate in his criminal court case. In January, the fired Teen Mom 2 dad was hit with an additional felony charge of “assault by strangulation,” but he still had the support of Jenelle– and her criminal defense team.
The couple would go on to split in February, and months later, David had to go to the court to let them know he could no longer afford the private attorneys. David was forced to declare himself indigent (aka living in poverty and unable to afford basic life necessities) and begged the court to assign him a public defender, which The Ashley can confirm only recently happened.
In the Affidavit of Indigency he filled out and filed with the court in May, David declared the sad state of his finances, revealing he only has $106 total in all his bank accounts— which include CashApp and Step Bank accounts. (In case you’re wondering what “Step Bank” is, it’s “a mobile banking app that offers a Step account and Visa Card to help teens and young adults start their financial journeys.”) He reported that he actually owes $797 on those accounts, though.
David, who is 36 years old, listed his profession as “self/scuba diver/influencer.”
While David claims he makes $1200 a month from his scuba diving and influencing endeavors, he reported that he is currently nearly $49,000 in debt.
David claimed that his monthly expenses– including car expenses, $900 in food, rent and utilities and more total $4357. This total also includes the $1800 David claims to be paying in support payments, which we can assume is child support. (However, Jenelle recently declared in court that, in the six months since their split, David hasn’t paid her anything in child support for their daughter Ensley. David is currently very behind in his support payments to his second baby mama, Olivia Leedham.)
The bulk majority of the debt David claims to have is from taxes, though. The fired reality star interestingly revealed that the last time he filed income taxes was for the 2018 tax year, and that he owed– and assumingly still owes, based on his affidavit— $46,000 in taxes. (As fans know, David and Jenelle were married in 2018, so this would affect her as well unless they filed separately. Also, the fact that he hasn’t paid income taxes for the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 or 2023 tax years may affect Jenelle as well.)
David lists his address as the North Carolina marina where he has been living on his and Jenelle’s broken boat (or, as The Ashley likes to call it, his “boaterhome”). He also noted that he is not currently on welfare or food stamps.
If David’s criminal case goes to trial (and he doesn’t take a plea deal, if offered), he could be facing some serious jail time. His “assault by strangulation charge” is a Class H felony, and carries a maximum of 39 months in prison. For his misdemeanor child abuse charge, David is facing up to 150 days in jail.
The official court summons issued in October claims that David “willingly” harmed Jace during the September incident.
“[David] unlawfully and willingly did, being the parents of Jace V Evans, who was a child, less than 16 years of age, inflict physical injury on that child,” the court document states. “The physical injury inflicted caused marks on [Jace’s] right arm, and left and right side of the neck, and was inflicted by other than accidental means.”
The Ashley can also confirm that David attended a court hearing on August 5 for his criminal case. Just days later, though, David was a no-show at a hearing regarding custody of his and Jenelle’s daughter Ensley. (As The Ashley told you earlier this week, Jenelle was granted sole legal and physical custody of Ensley, due to David not showing up to fight it.)
The Ashley will have more on David’s criminal case soon. Stay tuned…
RELATED STORY: EXCLUSIVE! David Eason Declared “Not Fit & Proper” To Have Custody of Daughter Ensley; Temporary Sole Legal & Physical Custody Awarded to Jenelle Evans
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He shouldn’t get a free lawyer or anything else free if he is not working. Tired of paying for losers especially ones that lived rich before. I can’t live rich and I have had a job for 45 years. I have to struggle to pay my bills and no one is going to help me. And I don’t expect help. If our taxes didn’t pay for others. Maybe I could live good too.
I read it as “$900 in food, rent, and utilities” as in $900 for all 3 combined every month. I may be wrong but reading the sentence over & over that’s what it seems to be, especially with the extra “and” added after it already said “and utilities”. For all the comments about how much he spends in food a month
David: you can’t be an influencer – no one likes you.
Easy money? I got an idea… Although Jenelle isn’t coming back, Amber is available…
If not, apply for a job at the city dumpster. There are jobs out there according to your expertise.
Bottom line, provide for your children.
Hasn’t been any taxes since 2018?! What a a WORTHLESS fucking bum! Get a job, scumbag! God damn, I knew it was bad but this is hilarious. LOL to everyone who still thought he and Jen were still living some cushy life even WITH her OF. Nobody who’s making good $$ hasn’t paid or is behind on taxes in 6 years! Yeesh
900 a month on food – WTF is that Sasquatch eating?!?!?
Rent!? Isn’t he living in Jenelle’s boat for free?
$900 in food? Who is he buying for? I have a family of 3 and it’s $600-$800 a month.
This is all for you Nugget. Enjoy!
But wait he’s forgetting to mention how he paid to fix up his new gfs place. Oh wait it must have been truly her own cash.
Great. Back to jail he goes. Maybe he can meet another of Jenelles soulmate and redo this whole thing again./s
WELL JENELLE
Well here’s hoping his public defender lawyer loses the case for him and he ends up in jail!
So funny how he used to boast how he has so many jobs and is making money. What happened to all that? Oh you meant to say you had Jenelles money, now you’re a broke ass b*tch. Hope his new gf wakes up to his crap and leaves him before he bleeds her dry too.
“David claimed that his monthly expenses– including car expenses, $900 in food, rent and utilities and more total $4357. This total also includes the $1800 David claims to be paying in support payments.”
The math isn’t adding up on any of this…David lives in a broken down boat, which Jenelle claims she pays $1k for the ticket to dock.
David apparently isn’t actually paying child support for any of his kids.
Where is $4400 coming from? And how is he making $1200 as a “scuba diver” and “influencer”?
Regardless, karma is making its way back around for this evil person.
The math ain’t mathing 4 real!!!!
I have a household of 4 and spend way less in a food a month.
Right! How does someone spend $900/month on food!
Maybe he’s including his drug and alcohol tabs….
A family size of 6 and I spend 800.00.
Dang, I need some tips from you… Although I am in California where everything is just insanely expensive. Yesterday I realized that Native deodorant is friggin’ almost $14 a pop. My son won’t wear anything else (eyeroll). Anywho- I spend 800 average bi-monthly and have a family of five… TEACH ME YOUR WAYS! LOL
How do you do that? I have a total of 5 and I spend 200 a week if I am really careful and go cheap but my special needs son only eats certain things that tend to be pricier. I spend at least 1000 a month if I care super careful and go for bogo’s
He’s probably ordering delivery for every meal since that’s the “lifestyle” he was accustomed to living with Janelle. Time to cook up some road kill possum on the boat!
Prison is a step up for him.
We all knew he was the biggest piece of crap. Just kinda wish everybody didn’t forget that Jenelle was too. Him, just well, being him, is making Jenelle for once look good. (I think I just gagged in my mouth) He is nasty AF, but so is she. Jenelle should not get rewarded or made out to be this great mom now, it’s so annoying. HaHa! David is the definition of Loser!
They really were the perfectly matched piece of $h1t couple straight outta swamp hell. Totally agree that she is still just as much of a POS and unfit parent as he is. Only difference is he physically hurt the children – she just stood by and let it happen then supported him which is just as bad. I don’t see her suddenly having an awakening. She just wanted that MTV paycheck back and the only way that would happen would be to dump him. But she also made sure she had a new d1ck to hop on and put before her kids.
He sure portrayed himself as a stand up man though, when he first got on TV 😂 Pipe fitter by trade, welder…
Get back to “fuckin rakin’” you loser.
I hope to God the judge will see through this lazy ass piece of shit!!! I hope he goes to jail and I hope that all of his debts and back taxes that occurred when he and whore-face Jenelle were married come back on her!!!! I hope she ends up having to pay for these debts. It would serve her right for defending this loser against her own son!! And she PAID for attorneys for him!! She is just as abusive as Dumb-Ass-David. She allowed him to abuse BOTH boys AND all of their animals that are now dead!
He is so fucking pathetic. You know who else is? Jenelle. Jenelle shelled out a shit ton of money to DEFEND this abusive loser AGAINST her own son who she SAW being ABUSED!!
Jenelle has been making the rounds on social media to prove that she is a good mother. Video after video posted of her cooking for her kids and them eating the (very unhealthy) slop she cooks. Like cooking for your children is something you should be patted on the back for. Not something you do naturally because you are a mom that loves her kids.
I hate them both so much.
💯💯💯💯💯💯
Can’t stand either of them.
How big of a piece of sh*t are you to lose custody to JENELLE!
The Swamp Queen (no matter where she plants her ass) will never redeem herself in the public eye with her equally abusive ways. Ugh.
$900 in food expenses for a month? Wtf is he feeding – the homeless in NC?
I feed my family of 7 (my husband, myself & 5 children) plus 2 very large dogs for less than $900 a month.
NC resident here – I can confirm he is NOT feeding our homeless population.
I also gasped at the $900 food bill. We’re a family of 4 with 2 teens and we’re under that amount each month.
I’d say he is going to fast food & restaurants a lot. I know he & Jenelle both liked to show they cooked, but they went out to eat a lot. I don’t see how he owes back taxes because he hasn’t worked in years.
You’ve reached a whole new level of lazy and deranged when you won’t go get to a job to pay a lawyer to keep yourself out of jail.
If only there was something he could do to make money like everyone else 🤔
But his vitiligo!!
Lock his sorry arse up, he’s nothing but a burden on society.
I’m so tired of seeing lazy people get handouts in life where they’re completely evil bodied. He should have to prove that he has a steady income in order to get a public defender. And that he doesn’t just need one, because he’s a lazy bum
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
I thought he said he’s making “tons of money”. And his new “girlfriend” said he paid for her house to be fixed or something LMFAO
Maury says, “that’s a lie”
He bought supplies and fixed her new home because the builders didn’t do something right.
I also remember The Easons getting a big check and going on a helicopter ride and solo vacation after they new they owed those taxes.
I think she said he was fixing stuff that wasn’t done right. Which translates in my mind to, him talking out his ass trashing the builders and speaking authoritatively about construction to someone who won’t catch the lies, to add to the illusion that he’s a good guy who’s going to take care of her. As if he’s looking out for her best interest, and not her wallet.
I don’t buy it.
These type of men always think they know wayy more about every single trade than the professionals with years of experience, even though they live like invalids and kept boys
Yea and like a true abuser and swamp creature he will mark his property (handsome squidward) by constantly holding it over her head as though she is forever indebted to him for swooping in and *saving* her “…I did hundreds of thousands of dollars of work to your house, you actually owe me…. Your house would have fallen apart if it weren’t for me.. I saved you… see how much you need me….Blah blah blah”
WHAT. A. F*CKING. LOSER. 🧟♂️🤢🤮🚫💲💲