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Kanye West has parted ways with his fourth divorce lawyer.<\/p>\n
The \u201cStronger\u201d hitmaker will no longer be represented by Chris Melcher after parting ways with the attorney just days before a hearing is due to take place on Wednesday in connection with his estranged wife Kim Kardashian’s request to be declared legally single.<\/p>\n
According to TMZ, the relationship with Kanye and Chris had become “extremely difficult”, with little communication between them and it seems the 44-year-old rapper may have been a difficult client to work with because at times, he had said he wanted to settle things with Kim, and at others, he expressed a desire to put up a fight.<\/p>\n
Chris is the fourth divorce lawyer Kanye has fired and he has now brought in Samantha Spector to argue his position in court.<\/p>\n
Samantha recently represented Nicole Young in her lengthy and bitter divorce battle with Dr. Dre – and the music producer was represented by Kim’s lawyer, Laura Wasser.<\/p>\n
It is said to be “highly unlikely” that the \u201cBound 2\u201d rapper will attend Wednesday’s hearing in person but court records state Kim will either call or video chat into the hearing.<\/p>\n
Last month, the 40-year-old beauty filed new paperwork on 23 February repeating her request from December to be declared legally single and also accused her estranged husband – who she split from last February – of causing emotional distress by “putting a lot of misinformation regarding our private family matters and co-parenting on social media”.<\/p>\n
But two days later, Kanye – who has made a number of public swipes at Kim and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson on Instagram in recent months – filed his own documents, insisting there was no evidence submitted to back up her accusation.<\/p>\n
His lawyer wrote in an objection: “The statement that ‘Kanye has been putting a lot of misinformation…on social media’ is double hearsay.<\/p>\n
“Kim claims she read something online allegedly by Kanye and characterises the posts in her declaration as misinformation.<\/p>\n
“The social media posts are not attached to the declaration. <\/p>\n
\u201cKim needed to offer the social media posts into evidence, and show that the posts were written by Kanye. <\/p>\n
\u201cHad that been done, the posts would be admissible as statements of a party opponent.<\/p>\n
“Instead, Kim argues a point that is not in the record. The statement is inadmissible hearsay…so Kanye asks that it be stricken.”<\/p>\n
Kim – who has North, eight, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, two, with Kanye – urged the court to declare the former couple legally single so Kanye can “move forward”.<\/p>\n
She wrote: “I very much desire to be divorced. I have asked Kanye to keep our divorce private, but he has not done so. Kanye has been putting a lot of misinformation regarding our private family matters and co-parenting on social media which has created emotional distress.<\/p>\n
The SKIMS founder went on to explain that she feels that their marriage is now irreparable, even if her former husband “does not agree.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kanye West has parted ways with his fourth divorce lawyer. The \u201cStronger\u201d hitmaker will no longer be represented by Chris Melcher after parting ways with the attorney just days before a hearing is due to take place on Wednesday in connection with his estranged wife Kim Kardashian’s request to be declared legally single. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}