Possible Clues:

• Former wife serves demands
• Demands and gets old bills
• Demands payment from the South, precisely
• Demands from one the South to be precise
• Forces the former bits of play
• Insists on and obtains, say payment - sounds precise
• Demands from former wife's decrees
• Compels payment of
• Demands made by laws no longer in force?
• Insists on and obtains