Reality TV divorces get ugly. This one just hit a level most people only see in courtroom dramas. Lia Jones, from “Married to Medicine: Los Angeles,” walked into a courthouse and told a judge she believes her ex-husband is trying to have her killed. Not with vague threats. She claims he asked a neighbor what it would cost to “get rid of” her and talked about getting a “clean gun” to do the job.
Her ex, Dr. Colin Dias, says none of it is true. His lawyer came out swinging within hours, calling Lia the “real menace” and pointing to years of court filings that tell a very different story. Both of these people are on the same show. Both have hearings coming up. And right now, a judge has to sort out who’s telling the truth.
The claim that started the whole thing
Lia went to court on Monday, July 14, and filed a domestic violence restraining order against Colin. The center of her filing is a conversation she says she never heard herself. According to Lia, a neighbor came to her and said Colin had asked them what it would cost “to get rid of” her.
In the court documents, Lia claims Colin told the neighbor he could get his hands on a “clean gun” to have her “whacked.” She wrote that he is “actively looking and recruiting” to make it happen, and that he has both the “means and desire” to follow through. She described a man whose old anger toward her has, in her words, turned into “control and obsession.”
That’s a heavy accusation to put in front of a judge. It’s also secondhand. Lia isn’t saying she heard Colin say these things. She’s saying a neighbor told her he did. That detail matters a lot, and it comes back to bite her request later.
Colin calls it all a lie
Colin didn’t sit on this. By 2:26 PM the same day the story broke, his attorney Robert Eisfelder had a statement out flatly denying everything. His words: Colin denies the allegations, and Lia’s latest filing ignores a long, messy history between the two of them.
Eisfelder’s argument isn’t just “my client didn’t do it.” It’s that the timing looks suspicious. He says Lia is trying to change the custody setup at a hearing already on the calendar. In his telling, the murder-for-hire claim isn’t a real fear. It’s a card played in a custody fight. That’s the frame Colin’s side wants everyone to see.
The lawyer also made a point of saying the couple’s two kids have been “thriving” while living with their dad. He wants the court thinking about the children and the existing custody orders, not about a gun and a neighbor.
This is not their first courtroom fight
Here’s the part that makes this so hard to read cleanly. Both of these people have accused the other of violence, and both have gotten restraining orders in the past. This is a fight with a paper trail running back years.
Lia says the abuse started with her. She points to a restraining order she got against Colin roughly five years ago, after she claims he hit her with a belt and dragged her by her hair. In her version, everything since then is one long pattern.
Colin’s declaration, filed back on April 21, 2026, flips the script completely. He claims Lia punched him in the stomach with a closed fist in May 2021 while he was recovering from surgery, and told him, “I wish you would die.” He alleges that in November 2021 she attacked him in front of their kids and threatened to “put two bullets” in his head. That, he says, is why he got his own domestic violence restraining order against her on November 10, 2021.
It goes further. Colin says a criminal protective order was issued in April 2022, and that Lia was arrested in August 2022 for allegedly violating it. So both sides are standing on their own stack of court paperwork, and each one says the other is the dangerous one.
The custody war underneath everything
Strip away the drama and this is really a fight about two kids. The couple finalized their divorce in 2023. Under that deal, Colin got sole legal and physical custody of their two children. Lia was limited to monitored visits, meaning she can’t even see her own kids without someone watching.
She has been trying to change that for a while. Earlier this year, Lia asked the court for a 50/50 arrangement. To back it up, she said she completed a 52-week domestic violence program, plus anger management courses, parenting classes, and therapy. That’s a serious amount of court-ordered work, and she wants it to count for something.
Colin’s team says the answer has already been no, over and over. According to his attorney, Lia has filed multiple requests for custody and other relief, and the court has denied all of them. That’s the backdrop the judge is looking at when a brand-new murder allegation lands on the desk.
What the judge actually did
Lia wanted the restraining order granted right away. The court said no, at least not yet. The judge pointed to the same weak spot everyone else noticed: the murder-for-hire claim is secondhand. It rests on what a neighbor supposedly said, and the court ruled that kind of claim needs a full hearing before anyone acts on it.
That’s not the same as the judge calling her a liar. It means the accusation is serious enough to require real evidence, not just a retold conversation. Judges deal with high-conflict divorces constantly, and they know a bitter custody battle can produce all kinds of claims. So the bar for pulling the trigger on an emergency order stays high.
Lia struck out on a second request too. She asked the court to let her immediately sell a home she says Colin pressured her into signing over in exchange for seeing their kids. She argued the quick sale would stop the house from going into foreclosure. The judge pushed that to a hearing as well. So she walked out of court that day with nothing granted.
Lia says the evidence is coming
Lia isn’t backing off. In a statement, she said what she and her family have gone through since learning her “life and safety” were compromised has been “extremely challenging” and full of distress. She sounds like someone who believes she’s in real danger, not someone playing a legal angle.
She also promised the proof exists. Her words: she’s “confident that once the courts review the totality of texts, witnesses statements and first hand accounts there will be sufficient evidence that can’t be refuted.” That’s a big bet to make in public. If she has texts and witnesses, the August hearing is where they’ll matter. If she doesn’t, that same hearing could sink her whole argument.
Two hearings, two weeks apart
Here’s how the calendar breaks down, because there are two separate court dates and they cover different things. The first is July 28, set for the custody fight, where Lia wants to change the current orders that give Colin full custody. The second is August 5, for the restraining order and the murder-for-hire claim the judge refused to rule on right away.
Those two dates are tangled together whether the court likes it or not. If Lia can’t get the restraining order, it undercuts her push for custody. If Colin can’t shake the accusation, his “she’s the real menace” defense gets a lot harder to sell. Everything hinges on what actually shows up as evidence, not what each side claims in a statement.
What we’ve got right now is a standoff. One person says her ex is shopping for a gun and a shooter. The other says she’s the violent one and this is a stunt to grab back custody of the kids. A neighbor’s alleged comment sits in the middle of it all, and nobody has heard that neighbor testify. Two people who share a TV show, two kids, and years of court records are about to find out which of their stories a judge believes.
