Judge: Wade's wife has 3 weeks to find attorney
The two young sons of NBA star Dwyane Wade and his estranged wife will know where they are living by summer’s end, a Cook County judge vowed today, even if their mother wants to hire her tenth in an “unbelievable” string of divorce attorneys.
Judge Marya Nega told Siohvaughn Wade that she has three weeks to find a new attorney after her most recent attorney, Marsha Fisher, told the judge her client wanted her to withdraw.
If Siohvaughn Wade doesn’t hire a new lawyer, the July 19 custody trial date will go on regardless, the judge said.
“Then Mrs. Wade, you’re Perry Mason,” Vega said. “You’re representing yourself.”
Nega, who called the number of attorneys representing Siohvaughn Wade “unbelievable,” approved of a joint summer custody program of alternating two week intervals for the couple’s two boys, 8 and 2.
The couple’s ugly, drawn-out divorce recently included allegations by Siohvaughn Wade that Dwyane Wade, a Chicago native, and actress Gabrielle Union “engaged in sexual foreplay” in front of their sons. Union and Dwyane Wade denied the accusations.