With Art Modell's moving the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore a puncuated low point in the Cleveland psyche....

@Tom Gimer  great point about sales ability and the most thing that is glossed over in all of this.you can have all the wiz bang , all the money for marketing etc etc.. but if you can't close you just are never going to be successful.And there is an art to it.. and it can be taught and coached.. most of these folks that embark in real estate sales and marketing which is what this is.. will not realize this and get the cart before the horse.. they do everything to get leads with zero skills to do anything with them.and believe me you go up against your competition that are proven closers and you will wonder why your not getting any deals...

I grew up loving art, painting, design, music, etc. 

I love the art of the deal and will wholesale, flip, or buy and hold depending on what the deal justifies.

Being artfully vague also avoids you looking like an ambulance chaser.

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art—if they desire to learn it—without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me, but no one else.And we also see that from those you tought as taking the new oath, according to NOVA over 50% of them believe that the oath is for traditional purposes only and they are not bound by that oath.Yet paradoxically, even as the modern oath's use has burgeoned, its content has tacked away from the classical oath's basic tenets.

Do you have any proof of ownership of the art and antiques?

At this time the "best" solution I have come up with is to open a joint account with the ex-wife, and have the state (which collects the payments electronically then deposits into her account) re-direct payment to our joint account, and eventually have her "drop off" from the account.Any thoughts would be appreciated.

As Trump said "The Art of the Deal".

:D You could just go to an art supply store and buy poster board or foam board in white or yellow and buy wooden stakes at home depot, lowes or somewhere like that.