Legally Friends

Legally Friends

Legally Friends is the weekly podcast where brother-in-law Zach and sisters-in-law Emily and Amy get real about what it's actually like to be family by law. From family vacations and sibling rivalries to celebrity drama, no topic is off limits. Each episode features "Judge & Jury" where they give verdicts on your wildest in-law dilemmas. It's funny, honest, and surprisingly relatable. New episodes weekly. Reach us at zach@legallyfriends.com or DM us on Instagram @legallyfriendspodcast

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August 9, 2026 82 mins

Amy’s neighbor demanded $1,600 for a fence he built before she moved in. When she refused to pay, he sent a sheriff to serve her with small-claims papers.

Amy and Zach revisit the unbelievable lawsuit, debate whether $30,000 in student debt should worry a future mother-in-law, and answer a listener who wants to know where Zach really fits within the family. Amy also shares the creepy text she received after a Hinge date at the...

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Amy returns from Dallas with a fake Southern accent and a plan to use it on her next date. She and Zach break down an awkward YSA encounter, their failed attempt to buy lottery tickets, and the argument that followed over what each would do with $600 million.

They also discuss the Lindsay Clancy case and the difficult questions surrounding postpartum mental health, psychosis, medical treatment, and accountability. Later, Amy explain...

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Amy finally bought her horse—and apparently that was only the beginning of the spending.

This week, Amy joins Zach in Dallas to talk about her new life as a horse girl, the enormous pile of supplies she bought before even bringing Doc home, and their plan to record an entire podcast episode while riding horses.

They also get into Zach and Megan’s experience interviewing for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, the strange ta...

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Amy has officially crossed into full horse-girl territory…

This week the conversation goes everywhere—in the best way. Amy reveals why she may be leasing a second horse, Zach exposes just how spoiled they both were growing up, they debate dream lives, confess the worst ways they cheated in school, laugh through awkward family dynamics, and react to another unbelievable Relative From Hell story.

It’s one of the funn...

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A husband thinks he’s getting his family back.

Instead, he walks into one of the most unbelievable family stories we’ve ever discussed.

This week, Amy and Zach introduce a new Relative From Hell segment before diving into a shocking real-life case involving a marriage on the brink, a mother-in-law, a brother-in-law, and a plan that ended with multiple family members behind bars.

Plus, we catch up on everything fr...

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Amy's out this week, which means it's just Zach and Megan, and the bickering is immediate. Zach opens up about his new job and the weird loneliness of watching your family have fun without you from a hotel room. Megan recaps the Telluride trip in a 15 passenger van (hairpin turns, fire smoke, one smashed finger), and then we get into it: did we hide our crazy during our 63 day engagement, why big reactions drive Zach insane, our sc...

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Amy confesses to 10.5 hours of screen time a day, Zach is fighting his migraines with red light and cutting Diet Coke, and there's a guy from Texas trying to outbid her on a horse she found on Facebook Marketplace. Then it's go time: this is our giveaway episode, so we announce the sweatshirt winners and put NINE of your Judge & Jury dilemmas in front of the jury.

On the docket this week: a mother-in-law who set up a sneaky play...

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This week, nobody is safe.

Amy updates us on dating, Zach has way too many opinions, Emily somehow proves she can’t be trusted around a grill, and Judge & Jury returns with family drama that has us completely divided.

In this episode:

⚖️ The DM that got left on read
⚖️ Dating rules we don’t agree on
⚖️ Why Emily should never be in charge of dinner
⚖️ Amy’s latest horse obsession
⚖️ Family situations t...

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Court is in session for Episode 23, and this one has everything: Amy’s horse-girl era, barrel camp with 12-year-olds, Zach’s home renovation and septic drama, Yellowstone with kids, Taylor Swift debates, and one very important Instagram message request from 2021.

Amy finds an old DM from a guy she now wants to go out with and sends a reply live on the podcast. Then we get into true crime rabbit holes, what’s chappi...

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Everyone has thoughts they're not supposed to say out loud.

This week Amy and Zach discuss dating, intrusive thoughts, social situations, family dynamics, and the things we secretly judge people for. Some of these opinions probably should have stayed private, but that's never stopped us before.

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Amy bought a horse and returned it a week later.

In this episode, Amy shares the emotional story behind sending Brazil back, while Zach tries to make sense of the horse world. Then Amy reveals what happened after being put under anesthesia—including the phone calls, the tears, and the comments that Shannon will never let her forget.

We also discuss:
• Amy's dating update
• Her Instagram account being deleted
• Zach's m...

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Amy and Zach are back with a full chaos recap of Zach’s graduation weekend in Charlottesville. They talk family sleepover madness, Dean and Weston stealing the show at graduation, Amy’s Chanel flip flop injury, Black Cow dinner drama, fishing in designer shoes, and Zach feeling sentimental about leaving Darden.

Amy also reveals that she bought a horse, which leads to horse name debates, barn drama, chickens, ticks, datin...

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What do your dreams actually mean?

This week on Legally Friends, Zach, Amy, and Emily sit down with world-renowned dream expert Lauri Loewenberg to decode the dreams they cannot stop having.

Lauri has spent nearly three decades analyzing dreams and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, Dr. Oz, CNN, Steve Harvey, and more. She explains why dreams are not random, what recurring dreams are trying to tell us, an...

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Welcome back to Legally Friends 🎙️This week we brought in dating coach & matchmaker Blaine Anderson to help Amy figure out what’s actually going wrong with her dating life 😭From dating apps and situationships to family pressure, avoidant attachment, dating in Utah, and moving to Dallas… this episode gets VERY honest.We talk about:* Why Amy struggles with dating* The pressure of being single in Utah 👀* Dating app...

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This week on Legally Friends, Amy and Zach sit down with Amy’s dad, Michael Skalla, for a full family tell-all.

Michael shares what it was like growing up in Wyoming and Omaha, how he met Shannon, and how he went from being raised in a house full of boys + 1 sister to raising four daughters. He talks about parenting, faith, family, business, the Skalla sisters’ social media journey, and what he looked for when ...

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This week, Zach and Amy are trying something new: a fully unfiltered episode. They talk upcoming guests, Amy’s fertility hypotheticals, the infamous “Uncle Daddy” conversation, her possible new horse Brazil, a tragic $100 singles event, sister fights, Utah recommendations, Secret Lives drama, and Amy’s attempt to explain her latest book obsession.

Then Judge & Jury goes off the rails: a listener who was l...

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Scarlett Bentley from Temptation Island Season 2 sits down with us for her first full tell-all. We cover her whole story — from growing up in Arkansas to Below Deck Sailing Yacht to meeting Cole, and everything that went down on the island that viewers didn't get to see.
Things we cover:
• How Scarlett and Cole actually met (and the state of the relationship before the show)
• The small lies that became the big probl...

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Emily’s 5 weeks post-op and spiraling — was the face surgery a mistake, or is it just swelling? This week we get into Emily’s emotional recovery and Easter meltdown, the Great Accutane Debate over ONE zit, renovation budget wars between designer-sister Emily and “cheap as possible” Zach, and Amy shopping for a $15,000 horse. 🐴

One of our most unhinged episodes yet.

In this episode:

  • Emily’s post...

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Josie Van Dyke — host of The Weekly Trash and mama of 3 — sits down with Zach and Amy and gets more honest than we expected. She shares everything: growing up in a "gray area" Mormon household, the Tinder story that led to her husband, the moment that almost ended it all, and how she built Weekly Trash from nothing into 250+ episodes.

Plus: $2,000 faucets causing fights in Zach's marriage, Amy giving up on men for horses...

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Nutrition coach and MacroHabits founder Hannah Pointer joins Zach and Amy for a wide-ranging conversation that goes from Amy's fight with Emily about taking niece Capri to the dermatologist for a single zit, to Hannah's deeply honest take on reverse dieting, GLP-1s, cheat days, and why most women are unknowingly sabotaging their results by eating too little. Plus: creepy Reddit stalkers trying to find Zach's new address, the truth ...

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