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Kendra Duggar got to work moving her family out of their home and listing some of their belongings for sale ahead of her husband Joseph’s first appearance in Florida
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Joseph, 31, was able to post his $600,000 bond that day and fly home to Arkansas to be with his wife Kendra, who put the family’s trailers, a four-wheeler and various power tools up for sale
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She is also preparing for how to best support her four children should her husband be unable to actively provide for the family
Joseph Duggar is currently back home in Arkansas with his wife Kendra Duggar after posting a $600,000 bond in Florida on March 31 to secure his release from the Bay County Jail.
He posted the $60,000 needed for his release from custody and prepared for the financial burden of his legal costs with help from his wife Kendra.
As Joseph sat alone in solitary confinement at the Washington County Detention Facility following his March 18 arrest, Kendra appeared busy listing some of the family’s belongings for sale and moving out of the home in order to transform it into a rental property.
Kendra was also facing her own legal troubles and working to bring her four children home while also trying to secure the cash for her husband’s bond.
Joseph Duggar
Credit: Bay County Sheriff’s
Shortly after Kendra’s release from jail on March 20, she and Joseph began discussing ways to bring in cash.
On March 25, during a jail phone call obtained by PEOPLE, the two discussed some of the items Kendra could sell.
This included most of their trailers, their four-wheeler, a pressure washer, a waterproof tarp and a wood splitter, among other things.
Kendra also moved everything out of her family’s home as she and Joseph are preparing to offer it as a rental to bring in money.
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During that same call, Kendra and Joseph discussed how rental properties would be advantageous to her by providing a steady stream of income for her and the children.
In her last phone call with Joseph before his extradition, she spoke about the toll all of this work had taken on her and her body.
“[I]f you could pray for my health because, I don’t know, I’ve just been really, really fatigued in the last two days,” Kendra told her husband.
She said the previous day she “couldn’t move after moving the stuff downstairs” and described her body as “turning off like a weighted blanket.”
Joseph told Kendra that he is surprised she managed to find the strength to carry out these tasks for as long as she did, which his wife then called “a miracle.”
“Yeah, because you’ve already had these health issues in the past, I’m surprised it didn’t take you down sooner, you know,” Joseph said on the call.
“It’s an absolute miracle,” Kendra repeated.
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A few days later, Joseph made his first appearance in front of a Florida judge and later that same day posted the money required for his $600,000 bond.
His attorney Albert J. Sauline III tells PEOPLE that Joseph is now back in Arkansas with his wife but not their children.
Kendra cannot see her children for a month following her March 20 arrest on child welfare charges, according to a jail letter sent by her sister-in-law Anna Duggar to Joseph.
As a condition of his pretrial release, Joseph cannot be alone with his children unsupervised or any other minors under the age of 18 unsupervised.
The couple will next appear in court on April 29 for the child welfare charges they’re facing in Arkansas.
Joseph will also be arraigned on the felony charges he faces in Florida in May. He has filed a written plea of not guilty.
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