Don't mean to be snide but even if it could be construed as extortion, could you imagine going to the police and saying -- "I am an embezzler. They are threatening to report me unless I pay them back. Prosecute them."My guess is the police would call the company, the company would say you stole the money, they deferred prosecution to give you a chance to repay it, you are not repaying it and you'd be wearing handcuffs shortly thereafter.YOU stole the money. The company is perfectly justified to look to you to repay it. The fact that your husband is in default of his contractual / court ordered obligations to you to share in the repayment does not take you off the hook. The company did not agree you would have to repay only half as he also promised you he would repay half; that's a private deal you and your ex-husband made between yourselves.