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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by Grossefavourite » Aug Thu 17, 2017 11:00 am

<font color=brown>@ <b>93tennisroyalty</b>:</font>
 
Plus, there's no real off season as they tend to squeeze in very, very lucrative exhibition/promotional events.

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Post by djmm1962 » Aug Thu 17, 2017 11:42 am

SAD!!

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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by rex » Aug Thu 17, 2017 12:31 pm

Based on what I've read thus far, I'm more disposed to Vika and granting Vika sole custody of her son. This boyfriend of hers, to me, is a "vagabond", for he has no stable employment at age 28, doesn't have a home, save for the residence that Vika bought in Manhattan Beach, CA with an "ocean view" and cannot provide the stable environment that Vika can as the custodial parent, but hopes to win custody so that he can by living off the non-taxable child support payments that he hopes to get by getting "full" custody and getting that house.

Even if there is joint custody, how can this guy meet his obligations with no stable employment and a home?

Naturally, Vika will continue her career and desires to do so, but Leo will be provided for by Vika's family in Belarus and that home in CA will have to go.

Vika met this guy in Hawaii at an upscale resort working as a golf instructor, you know, teaching old ladies and men how to play golf while they're on vacation. Yet, per the attached article, he's been in Minsk 4 times, while practicing hockey with Belarussian players, but he's not a pro hockey player. (Where's his income coming from)?

Unfortunately, her son was born in LA, not in Belarus. Yet, Vika is not a US citizen, but the boyfriend's father is. What courts have jurisdiction over this issue with the parents of two different nationalities is unknown to me for now and will, obviously, have to be determined in the ensuing custody suit.

Lastly, this article is dated, April, 2017. In this article Vika makes a statement to the fact that she and her boyfriend had an understanding about the demands and travel of Vida's career and he, apparently, agreed to the fact that for the next 5-to-6 years he agreed to support Vika's career obligations by partnering with her to raise Leo with this understanding. Yet, 5 months later he "flips the switch" and now wants custody. BS.....


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/spor ... pe=article

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Post by Grossefavourite » Aug Thu 17, 2017 1:27 pm

I'd be surprised if Vika didn't already have a Green Card/Permanent Residency in the USA which would entitle her to the same rights as the father.
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Post by rex » Aug Thu 17, 2017 2:01 pm

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I, for one, have no understanding of what you just typed, no interest in Green Card/Permanent Residency issues. So, I'll just have to wait on how this plays out.

This guy at this point "flipped" on Vika, where she now has to devote her entire attention on caring for Leo and putting aside her tennis career, where she desires to be back on the court. One can tell that she loves her son, doesn't want to be away from him and is the main reason why she's withdrawing from all these events.

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Post by Grossefavourite » Aug Thu 17, 2017 2:06 pm

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lol. People would kill their granny for a Green Card. It's the last step before citizenship which only differs by passport and the right to vote. That is why so many people with Green Cards don't bother becoming citizens as they have no desire to vote. But with so much immigration turmoil around the world, many feel compelled to get citizenship.

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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by rex » Aug Fri 18, 2017 6:46 pm

Interesting opinion from an attorney on this custody battle, citing a California statute that may aid in the ruling in Vika's favor:

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/articl ... en-absence

From the article, the California statute, Family Code section 3405:

"(a)&#8194;A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as if it were a state of the United States for the purpose of applying this chapter and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 3421).

(b)&#8194;Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), a child custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this part must be recognized and enforced under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 3441).

(c)&#8194;A court of this state need not apply this part if the child custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights."


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I've read that Vika has already gone to the Family Court in Belarus and was awarded custody via such. If this is the case, then the California court has to honor the Belarus' ruling on the custody matter and award custody to Vika.

Yet, I'll need to find out if this is the case and read whether the custody matter was determined for sole or joint custody.

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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by Grossefavourite » Aug Fri 18, 2017 6:52 pm

<font color=brown>@ <b>rex</b>:</font>
 
(c) might work in his favor.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/c ... rs/belarus

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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by rex » Aug Fri 18, 2017 8:23 pm

<font color=brown>@ <b>Grossefavourite</b>:</font>
 


Grosse....please. Got nothing to do with this case....lol.

Yet, subsections 3427 and 3428 pertain to jurisdictional matters between courts and requires substantial documentation and facts from the 2 parties in order for the one court to defer to the other court. Given those stipulations, imo, Vika has a clear edge, for this guy is "unemployed" and doesn't have a permanent residence, for he was a golf instructor in "Hawaii", not California and made 4 trips to Belarus, while staying with Vika in "her home" in Manhattan Beach. Now, in this custody issue how can he be given custody with no job, no permanent residence and no means of providing support for Leo, save for a judicial ruling in his favor for "sole custody", for even in a joint venture, he doesn't have assets?

Yet, remember the late, great actor Lee Marvin who had a "palimony" lawsuit filed against him by his live-in partner? He lost big via a court ruling. This guy here is trying to benefit from liberal laws favoring partnerships in the state of California, given that Vika is a multi-millionaire tennis player, while this guy is essentially a "vagabond".
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Re:Vika in Custody Battle with Ex

Post by Grossefavourite » Aug Fri 18, 2017 10:04 pm

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His circs haven't changed since she willingly hopped into the sack with him unprotected. I do think too that the CA courts won't defer to a country with a poor human rights record as Belarus appears to have. For instance, they wouldn't want a child born in the USA or his parent to be potentially subjected to the death penalty. Vika could potentially face the death penalty.
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