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Posted by Michael David Smith on August 26, 2008, 11:51 a.m.
An appeals court in New Jersey has sided with Michael Strahan in his divorce case, ruling that he doesn’t owe his ex-wife $18,000 a month in child support and doesn’t have to pay for his ex-wife’s divorce lawyer, the Newark Star Ledger is reporting.
But in an interesting twist, another part of the court’s ruling could be dependent on Strahan staying retired. The appeals court ruled that Strahan doesn’t need to get a multi-million dollar disability insurance policy because he is retired. If Strahan un-retires, as the Giants want him to do in the wake of Osi Umenyiora’s season-ending injury, that issue could be re-opened. The cost of a disability policy would likely be extremely high, especially for a player Strahan’s age.
Another aspect of Strahan’s divorce case was whether he owed his ex-wife a $6.5 million payment; the appeals court didn’t rule on that issue because the Strahans reached a private settlement about it.
The three-judge panel said the child support Jean Strahan was seeking for Michael was excessive, and they called into question whether those payments really benefited the children at all.
For instance, Jean Strahan claims that the couple’s twin girls needed $30,000 in landscaping and $3,000 in audio visual expenses for their home, and that they needed to pay for a trip to Jamaica for their nanny and her family and for diamond jewelry for their grandmother. The court nixed all that.
The judges also ruled that Michael and Jean Strahan both shared the responsibility of providing for their children financially, and the opinion said of Jean Strahan, “There is no question that as a healthy, educated, 41-year-old, [she] is capable of earning her own income.”
Overall, the ruling would seem to be good news for Michael Strahan, and news that would make him less likely to feel the need to come out of retirement for big money from the Giants.
An appeals court in New Jersey has sided with Michael Strahan in his divorce case, ruling that he doesn’t owe his ex-wife $18,000 a month in child support and doesn’t have to pay for his ex-wife’s divorce lawyer, the Newark Star Ledger is reporting.
But in an interesting twist, another part of the court’s ruling could be dependent on Strahan staying retired. The appeals court ruled that Strahan doesn’t need to get a multi-million dollar disability insurance policy because he is retired. If Strahan un-retires, as the Giants want him to do in the wake of Osi Umenyiora’s season-ending injury, that issue could be re-opened. The cost of a disability policy would likely be extremely high, especially for a player Strahan’s age.
Another aspect of Strahan’s divorce case was whether he owed his ex-wife a $6.5 million payment; the appeals court didn’t rule on that issue because the Strahans reached a private settlement about it.
The three-judge panel said the child support Jean Strahan was seeking for Michael was excessive, and they called into question whether those payments really benefited the children at all.
For instance, Jean Strahan claims that the couple’s twin girls needed $30,000 in landscaping and $3,000 in audio visual expenses for their home, and that they needed to pay for a trip to Jamaica for their nanny and her family and for diamond jewelry for their grandmother. The court nixed all that.
The judges also ruled that Michael and Jean Strahan both shared the responsibility of providing for their children financially, and the opinion said of Jean Strahan, “There is no question that as a healthy, educated, 41-year-old, [she] is capable of earning her own income.”
Overall, the ruling would seem to be good news for Michael Strahan, and news that would make him less likely to feel the need to come out of retirement for big money from the Giants.
), she needs to concentrate on making a life for herself and her children.
