Looking for some advice on how this situation would best be handled.

So I have a co-worker who works right along side me who wanted to purchase some snakes and have me breed them for her and all. Not having a PayPal account to pay for said animals, I agreed to use my PayPal account/Buyer's Credit. We had verbally agreed that she would pay in full within 30 days before interest kicked in. I bought them, she paid half of it promptly. 2 months go by and no rest of the money. I bring it up and she says that her boyfriend was supposed to pay the other half and he does not have the money (this side arrangement was unknown to me as I knew he had no job, so I would have known that this would not end well). I told her that I would still be needing that money promptly regardless and that she is know going to be paying interest as well. She agreed. 2 more months pass and I was finally given some cash, but it pretty much only covered the interest she now owes me for 4 months.

Here we are a total of 9 months later and MY (the way i see it, since she has not paid in full yet) female will be laying very soon and she still owes me half of the money. The biggest issue I have is the fact that she does infact have the money, as she has bought several electronics, spent thousands on her play Jeep that still does not run, and is currently looking at a new Jeep.

So here I am with snakes that she believes are hers because she paid me half, and I believe she thinks that she can just pay me the rest AFTER the snake lays eggs and the babies are sold. I think that at the very least half the eggs are mine as I have had the same amount invested in these snakes as she has.

My biggest issues are that since I have gotten to know her better in the last 9 months, I have learned that she is one that will fly off the handle at anything that does not go her way, so I know as soon as I try to calmy explain my views on the situation and what I believe I am entitled to, she will flip and not want to hear it at all. Secondly, she may be sue happy. Thirdly, I still have to work with her on a daily basis at my real job.

What I have in my head as being fair is this:

  • Half the profit, if any is mine. Or half the babies are mine.

  • She still owes me what was already agreed upon plus interest. (At this point I can take this out of the hatchlings) and since I want clear of this deal she must take the snakes
or
  • I return her money (Less interest to this point) to her and keep the snakes and I am nice enough to still cut her in on the eggs since she has had half the money in it just as long as I have


Do these seem like fair terms are there any other options I should consider?