On Monday, June 16, 2025, Law360 reported that a federal judge in Texas overturned a May court order allowing Wells Fargo Bank to garnish the accounts of Stephanie Marie Ure, the wife of Frank Richard Ahlgren III, a Bitcoin investor who faced criminal charges for failing to report cryptocurrency gains.

The judge’s decision came after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requested the writ of garnishment be quashed. The move followed Ure’s filing on May 25, in which she sought to block the garnishment order tied to a restitution requirement imposed on her husband.

Ahlgren was indicted for submitting false tax returns from 2017 to 2019 and for violating structuring laws aimed at hiding profits from cryptocurrency sales. He received a two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to not reporting gains of $3.7 million, which were later used to purchase a home in Park City, Utah. Additionally, Ahlgren was ordered to repay over $1 million to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for unpaid taxes.

In her motion to quash the garnishment, Ure highlighted a premarital agreement they signed two days before their marriage on November 14, 2021. The agreement stipulated that their financial assets, including income, bank accounts, and retirement accounts, would remain separate and not classified as community property subject to garnishment. Ure’s legal arguments emphasized that her financial independence should protect her assets from claims related to her husband’s legal troubles.

This ruling marks a significant development in the intersection of cryptocurrency regulation and marital property laws, as it underscores the complexities that can arise from financial agreements within marriages.