[CBFF] CT: Briggs in legal battle over child support

[Kenny Claxton]

I don't care about his or Urlachers baby's mama issues.

On 12/18/07, Victor Waldron <victor19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I don't really care about the details of the case, but Briggs is
> showing some utter stupidity here.)
>
> Briggs in legal battle over child support
> Baby's mother says Bears LB negligent in providing money
> By Brian Hamilton
> Tribune staff reporter
>
> December 17, 2007, 10:37 PM CST
>
> On Sept. 10, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs became a first-time father.
>
> Now that bundle of joy has spiraled into a heap of legal turmoil and
> untidy he-said, she-said accusations.
>
> The child's mother, 21-year-old Loyola student Brittini Tribbett,
> alleged that Briggs inadequately supports his daughter and impregnated
> two other women while Tribbett was expecting.
>
> Tribbett said she moved out of a three-bedroom Glenview condominium
> the couple shared after learning of the alleged other pregnancies and
> said it's "beyond a struggle" to get Briggs to fund necessities for
> their baby or to visit the child.
>
> "At this point, I'm not interested in having a relationship," Tribbett
> said Monday. "At this point, all I'm interested [in] is him being a
> present father that's around. I'm interested in him providing for our
> daughter and settling this matter so we can both move on with our
> lives. I really don't want to be fighting every day."
>
> Randall Kessler, an Atlanta-based attorney representing Briggs, said
> his client had "definitely visited regularly" and had provided "two or
> three thousand dollars" each time Tribbett's attorney has asked
> Kessler to ask Briggs for money.
>
> "The anger is not about him providing for the child," Kessler said
> Monday. "She bad-mouths his providing, and he's not missed a chance to
> provide for the child. He's done the right thing financially.
>
> "It's a woman scorned, not a child abandoned."
>
> Tribbett said she met Briggs a little more than a year ago through a
> mutual friend. The pair began a relationship, and when Tribbett became
> pregnant, she said Briggs was "really happy." She said the two talked
> about baby names, shopped for baby clothes and settled into the
> condominium.
>
> Briggs legally acknowledged he is the father when the child was born.
>
> After learning of the two other alleged pregnancies — the first on a
> MySpace.com page, the second through text messages Briggs received —
> Tribbett said she moved out. She now lives with her family and said
> she has borrowed from them for diapers and formula.
>
> Enrico Mirabelli, Tribbett's attorney, said Briggs had provided about
> $6,000 of support in the last six months, not counting the condominium
> or use of a car, among other items. Kessler said the figure is
> "$15,000 in three months, not counting food, diapers and other things
> he has bought."
>
> The dispute focuses on the support package for Tribbett and the child.
> Kessler said Tribbett initially "asked for well over $100,000 a year."
>
> "We're not asking for an outrageous amount of money," Mirabelli said.
> "The law is 20 percent of the man's net income. Twenty percent would
> be about $75,000 a month. We're not asking for anywhere near that.
> We're in line for what high-income-earning fathers pay."
>
> Meanwhile, Mirabelli alleges that Briggs, who makes $7.5 million a
> year from the Bears, first offered "less than 10 percent of what he
> earns in one game" for a year of support.
>
> "It's a lot more than 10 percent of one game," Kessler said. "If 10
> percent of what he makes in one game is $40,000, the package he
> offered her is at least double that."
>
> Tribbett filed a paternity suit in October asking that Briggs pay
> child support; pay for outstanding pregnancy-related medical bills;
> pay for health-care related expenses; pay for a life insurance policy
> for the child; pay for a "college fund account" and "trust account"
> for the child and pay for Tribbett's "temporary and final legal costs
> and fees."
>
> Kessler said Briggs would prefer both sides use a mediator, for which
> he will pay, to settle the dispute.
>
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