Lawyers dispute McCourt findings

Topdawg13 · Jul 14, 2010

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The document in question is a postnuptial marital property agreement that put the couple's homes in her name. It was signed on March 31, 2004 -- the day before the McCourts moved from Boston to Los Angeles. The agreement between the two sides ends there.

Frank McCourt maintains the seven-page document -- with two attached schedules on the back dividing their assets -- gave him control of the Dodgers. Jamie denies ever signing away the team in a profile on the couple and their divorce in the next issue of ESPN The Magazine.

Jamie McCourt's lawyers contend that there are six different copies of the document, and tests show that three of them -- signed at a different time than the other three, the lawyers said -- did not include Schedule A when Jamie McCourt signed them. Schedule A lists the assets Frank McCourt claims he is entitled to -- including the Dodgers.

Jamie McCourt's lawyers contend that because Larry Silverstein, the lawyer who drafted the document, has testified that he went over it with Jamie, he may have gone over a different version than the one signed by Frank McCourt.

In an interview with ESPN The Magazine in San Francisco last month, Jamie McCourt's lead attorney, David Boies, said his client believed the document she signed did not mention the Dodgers, and that the property agreement was executed with the sole purpose of putting the homes in her name to protect them from creditors should her husband's business ventures fail.

Boies contended that Jamie -- who has a law degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA from MIT -- was the victim of a "switcheroo" in which her husband or his estate lawyer, Silverstein of Bingham McCutchen, removed the schedules listing his and her take that were tacked on after the signature page and replaced them with new pages that gave him sole control of the team.
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What a mess, wouldn't surprise me, if McCourt ends up having to sell the Dodgers.

Layfield · Jul 14, 2010

As a Dodger fan that would not bother me at all. Him and his ****ed up exwife are the only things holding the dodgers back right now. Frankly part of me is rooting for that

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