Tom Cruise’s Lawyer Says He Hopes Divorce Won’t Be “Contentious”
Posted on July 01, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Tom Cruise’s longtime lawyer, Bert Fields, told the LA Times that he hopes Tom’s divorce from Katie Holmes is amicable. That seems almost laughable from everything we’ve been told so far, but the attorneys the newspaper spoke to offered some much tamer views of the divorce proceeding so far (of course, issues like surveillance weren’t discussed). Bert said:
“I would hope that it’s not a contentious matter. I know Tom is not a particularly contentious person.”
Bert said he couldn’t comment on whether or not Tom and Katie had a prenup. Raoul Felder, a Manhattan divorce attorney, offered up a reason Katie may have filed in New York rather than California that had nothing to do with custody decisions.
“My guess is that she brought it in New York because files are sealed. If it was in California, it’s all public and you can walk into the clerk’s office and get the papers.”
It seems like Tom wouldn’t be opposed to that, and that could be leverage Katie could use to keep the divorce proceedings in New York: she could refuse to agree to have a private judge hear the matter but make it all public if he insists on going to California. Perhaps things aren’t as nasty as they seem, although the custody issue is hard to forget. Or Bert’s comments are part of the spin. We’ll find out. We do know Tom has hired the same attorney he used in his divorce from Nicole Kidman.
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“My guess is that she brought it in New York because files are sealed. If it was in California, it’s all public and you can walk into the clerk’s office and get the papers.”