As if the authorized drama surrounding Wendy Williams and the state of her wellbeing wasn’t sophisticated sufficient, her ex-husband Kevin Hunter has simply added yet one more convoluted layer to the scenario.
Per court docket paperwork newly obtained by The Solar on Tuesday, it seems that Hunter has filed a Grievance Committee grievance towards Williams’ authorized guardian Sabrina Morrissey. Initially filed in again in Oct., in it, Hunter alleged that not solely has Morrissey been purporting herself to be his ex-wife’s authorized guardian however that she’s additionally been allegedly purporting to be working towards legislation within the state of New Jersey with out even having a license to start with.
“Ms. Morrissey just isn’t and has not been legally appointed as Guardian of my ex-wife in New Jersey, but Ms. Morrissey has filed motions, cross motions, and responses to motions, in addition to testified in court docket in a jurisdiction that she has no authorized standing,” the paperwork learn partially. “Ms. Morrissey is working towards legislation with out a license within the State of New Jersey.”
For context and as beforehand reported by The Root, Morrissey and Hunter have been embroiled in a authorized back-and-forth of kinds for the reason that latter social gathering and Williams’ divorce was finalized again in 2020. Within the aftermath, Hunter started receiving alimony funds from the previous eponymous daytime speak present host— or a minimum of, that was the case earlier than her financial institution Wells Fargo concluded that she was an “incapacitated particular person” and Williams was appointed a monetary guardian— a.ok.a. Morrissey. As soon as appointed, Morrissey filed court docket paperwork in an try to regain the $112,000 Hunter acquired as part of alimony citing the truth that he was “overpaid” for 3 months and was “unjustly enriched” by Williams’ checking account and extra. The 2 have been going at it ever since.
Quick ahead to now and Morrissey is clapping again at Hunter’s new declare and has since responded to the brand new court docket paperwork asserting that she was granted the function of guardianship for the favored TV persona by means of a New York Supreme Courtroom decide.
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Sabrina then claimed, “I’ve by no means appeared as an lawyer in any Courtroom for my ward, Wendy Williams Hunter.”
Sabrina cited a New Jersey Courtroom Rule that said, “An individual not qualifying to follow pursuant to the primary paragraph of this rule shall nonetheless be permitted to look and prosecute or defend an motion in any court docket of this State if the particular person (1) is an actual social gathering of curiosity of the motion or the guardian of the social gathering.”
She argued, “With out query, primarily based on the statute, the guardian of a celebration is permitted to look in a continuing in New Jersey, instead of her ward.”
Morrissey additionally made it clear that she wouldn’t be transferring Williams’ guardianship to New Jersey until Williams decides to maneuver there herself and has since employed a New Jersey lawyer to proceed checking out the remainder of the post-divorce cash drama between the 2 events transferring ahead.
This information comes simply days after Williams was noticed out in public and in good spirits simply weeks after it was revealed she’d been labeled as “cognitively impaired, completely disabled, and incapacitated” again in Nov.