Is she threatening us?!!

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Being part owner of a daycare there are some pretty picky parents that my business partner and I have been dealing with. I don't blame the parents sometimes because when it came to having my son in a daycare when he was younger I looked for the best as well. My friend and I had an issue last week and that made us come to a decision to let one child go due to her mother's rudeness. When we first started our daycare business we held interviews to meet parents and their children just to see how the child liked it and to see if we thought the children would fit in. We took non-refundable deposits from the parents and that was for holding the child's spot plus it went as credit. One lady used up her credit and had her daughter with us for the last two months up until last week. In our policy we ask for 50% of their weekly fees and notice so she did that. Also all payments are due every friday in advance due to one mother using us for childcare then ending up not paying so we had that in our policy where everyone had to pay on fridays in advance for the following week. This one lady always paid us on Tuesdays. When she came back from her vacation, she gave us her weekly fees on Tuesday which was actually due last friday. When we told her that her payment was due on Friday as our policy stated, she began stating that she wasn't making two payments for one week. She also had the idea of that she was one week ahead for payments which was false due to her mistake about thinking that her daughter didn't show up the first week and used up her credit. Talk about a pain in the butt!! She then continued telling us that we'de better be careful seeing that we weren't licenced and if anyone were to walk in they could have us shut down. We have no more than 6 kids a day and the licencing place is okay with this! Especually when there is two of us supervising the children. She then told us that her husband was coming over with her to straighten this whole thing out and that made us feel terrible and intimidated. My friend completely disagreed with this because we have our business in her home and she felt that it would make her feel intimidated in her own home so she was quite upset, as I was too. When this lady finally understood that she was not ahead one week of payment and realized we were right, she told us that her husband was coming by with the money and we ended up refusing it because we felt that this lady was very vendictive and we also felt threatened so we came to our decision to not have her back. I guess my question is this... have you ever found out someone could be so vendictive where you just wanted to avoid them? Did you feel that they would hurt you?