Govan is again in courtroom. @GLORIAGOVAN/INSTAGRAM
Dec. 18 2023, Printed 7:00 a.m. ET
Ex-Basketball Wives star Gloria Govan dragged her ex-husband Matt Barnes again to courtroom over alleged unpaid baby assist — and accused him of violating a deal they’d over their teen boys showing on his actuality present.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, Govan requested for a listening to to be held on the problem of alleged again baby assist owed by Barnes.
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Govan says Barnes owes her over $100k in again assist.
Earlier this 12 months, Govan filed courtroom paperwork claiming Barnes owed her again baby assist.
Barnes and Govan settled their divorce in 2015. The ex-NBA star initially agreed to pay the truth star $20k per 30 days in baby assist however they agreed to scale back it to $9,983 per 30 days after he left the league.
Govan accused Barnes of blowing off the case regardless of being served with the authorized paperwork. The decide ended up ordering Barnes to pay the $133k. Nonetheless, weeks later, Barnes confirmed as much as courtroom and claimed his ex-served him at an e mail tackle he now not used.
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The courtroom vacated the default judgment, and the exes are nonetheless combating over the alleged again assist.
In her new movement, on high of the again assist, which she stated is at the moment at $267k, Govan demanded $25k from Barnes to cowl her authorized charges having to struggle him over the cash. She stated Barnes “is retired from the NBA, has intensive financial savings, an opulent life-style and sure earns properly over $1.5 million per 12 months even after retirement. He’s more likely to have intensive financial savings and funding accounts.”
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“I’ve tried to settle this matter with [Barnes]. His counteroffer made it clear he’s not dwelling in actuality. Moreover, he has refused to pay the court-ordered assist, although now we have already had litigation and he’s properly conscious that there isn’t any settlement to scale back assist.”
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Govan stated Barnes began paying her round $4k per moth beginning in 2020 regardless of him being ordered to pay the almost $10k in assist per 30 days. She stated he determined “that he didn’t wish to pay” the quantity ordered and lowered it on his personal.
In her movement, Govan stated she by no means agreed to this. She stated he instructed her he was “having a tricky time together with his girlfriend and her youngsters dwelling with him, together with a brand new baby coming, however there isn’t any settlement to scale back assist.”
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In her movement, she claimed her ex has a “risky persona.” She stated he when he “will get offended, he’s caustic and makes threats that quantity to extortion. It’s believed that when and if he’s ordered to pay the arrearage of kid assist that’s due, his anger will overflow, and the opposite requested orders might want to even be in place at the moment.”
“Gloria additionally believes that the dysfunction at Matt’s residence has created an emotionally disturbing atmosphere for the boys.”
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Matt and his new fianceé.
In her declaration, Govan stated, “Though Matt has not of latest instances been as abusive in the direction of me as he has prior to now, I do consider that by submitting this [motion], he’ll revert again to the bully he has so typically been, and he’ll threaten or attempt to extort me as he has prior to now.”
Govan requested that each one their communications be executed within the app that the courtroom can see.
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Earlier this month, Barnes and his fiancée Anasa Sims introduced their new actuality present The Barnes Bunch would premiere on WE television.
The present is centered across the couple and their blended household — together with Barnes’ twin boys that he shares with Govan.
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In her movement, Govan stated, “I’m particularly involved that if Matt will get offended, that a few of this shall be displayed on the truth present The Barnes Bunch that he has been filming for a season, and which is filming once more now. I had initially solely agreed to our boys being included solely on a restricted foundation, however Matt went past our settlement.”
“I subsequently want to have a written order that requires our settlement to have the boys concerned in a actuality present, whether or not Matt’s or one which I’m probably going to be filming.”
Barnes has but to reply to Govan’s new movement.
As RadarOnline.com first reported, on high of the courtroom drama together with her ex, Govan was not too long ago sued for fraud over her hashish enterprise. She denied all allegations of wrongdoing.