Most people would be thrilled with a divorce settlement that gave them more than $1.1 million in cash, marital property, and portions of three NFL retirement programs. But for reality-TV star Sheree Whitfield — who recently divorced former football pro Bob Whitfield — that doesn’t quite cut it.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sheree Whitfield, a cast member on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is appealing a settlement that included a lump sum of $775,000, as well as an annual $113,422 in her ex’s retirement funds and $2,142.87 in monthly child support. However, her divorce lawyers now say that her limited education and inability to earn income are a severe disadvantage compared to her wealthy ex-husband, who had a six-year, $30 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons. (Sheree Whitfield only has a high-school diploma, and her attempt to start a clothing boutique failed.)
The settlement did not include any spousal support, and the Georgia Supreme Court evicted Sheree Whitfield and the couple’s children from their $2.6 million home in Sandy Springs, GA, just north of Atlanta. EURweb.com reports her claim that she cannot afford to buy a new house in the neighborhood where the children have grown up.
Bob Whitfield’s divorce attorneys want the court to fine his ex-wife $2,500 for initiating a frivolous appeal, according to EURweb.com.
“We are in the final stages of the divorce and the settlement,” the Real Housewives star recently told People. “I feel like I am single already because we have been separated for at least three or four years. I am just ready to do my thing and focus on me, my kids, my family, and friends.”
The Whitfields divorced in 2007 after seven years of marriage. Their two children were 11 and eight at the time.
Sheree Whitfield has appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta since the series began in autumn 2008. She is also trying to start a new clothing line called She By Sheree. Bob Whitfield, 37, played for the Falcons from 1992 to 2003 and announced his retirement from professional football in February 2007. He is now a guest NFL analyst for Sky Sports in the U.K.
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You know divorce is not nice for anyone but I think it doesn’t matter who you are, if you have children you should provide for them in some way.
My sister walked away from her house & everything to get away from an abusive husband who was not even the father of her three children & she was so frightened we couldn’t convince her she was the person who owned the house & she should of got him out, he beat her & my two nephews of the relationship & he got away with it because my sister was coercively coolhurst by him to fear him.
He also destroyed the relationship between my sister & her five siblings of which I was one, but I always left the door open.
Even now, she won’t make a report to the police & her children won’t because of her & that it may upset her.
Recently I found out that her second was sacked from his job for violent conduct, which is no consolation to the abuse that my sister & nephews suffered, although eventually when a person like him lives his life beating women & kids, it’s karma & maybe the lord has had enough of his abuse against others!
But they’re real father has never paid anything in child support, my sister has paid for everything related to her three children on her own.
Personally if I was my sister I would take her second husband to court & sue him for the abuse, against her & her two children of three & I would also sue the first husband for backdated child support which he has paid nothing, ever.
That is how bad divorce gets, it is fear, it is a real fear of challenging the first husband for child support & the second husband for the abuse against her & her two of three children, particularly when the first husband was also physically abusive towards my sister too.
She would never let any of her four brothers get involved! Which we always felt hurt by, because we all felt helpless to help her when we could of!
I feel she doesn’t know how much I’d stand by her side, but she is a hard person to reach after years of her second husband distancing her from her family & all what she went through, but she seems unaware that there were two of her kids who suffered physical abuse at her second husband hands & they should get justice for them, whether she chooses not to & the child support is about them, not her, because the money is for their needs, which would have been better if she had that & not depended on herself throughout it all.
Whether it be a man or woman who is the highest earner, if you have children, you should pay your way to keep your children in a lifestyle they’re accustom to & not use your children as a commodity, because in the end they can be damaged by the adults behaviour!