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[Herald Tribune] Mom awarded $54K a year in T-Mac paternity case

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[Herald Tribune]Tmac making news...

and not the good kind.

Well, I guess isn't bad either.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080619/BREAKING/377867749/1661

Mom awarded $54,000 a year in paternity case

SARASOTA — Basketball star Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets must pay a Bradenton woman $54,156 a year in child support for their daughter, plus insurance and tuition, a Sarasota County circuit judge ruled.

Judge's ruling The amount is far less than the $204,000 a year that Pearl Vega, 36, had argued would be more in line with McGrady’s $21.6 million annual income and give their child a lifestyle more equal to that of McGrady’s other children. Circuit Judge Donna Berlin ruled that Vega had overstated the child’s needs and has “used child support to enhance her personal lifestyle and that of her other two children.”

“It is inappropriate for Ms. Vega to use child support as a means to further her education when she chooses to attend college as a full-time student and expect Mr. McGrady to pay for tuition, a full-time nanny and other domestic help,” Berlin wrote in the decision. Vega’s attorney immediately filed a notice the mother would appeal.

In a trial in December, Vega's attorneys highlighted exactly what it means to be the child of an NBA star: McGrady shares a six-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot house with a pool outside Houston with his wife and three children. He spends $5,000 per month on a chef and $1,732 for a housekeeper. One of the children had a $16,000 birthday party for about 40 children, with a magician, clown, face painter, games and music.

McGrady and his family spend about $45,000 per month for personal travel, sometimes on private jets. The children went on trips to New York, to North Carolina a dozen times -- to Florida about the same number -- and to Atlanta, California, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Virgin Islands, and Rio de Janeiro. They stay at Ritz-Carltons, have private preschool and tutors, and get thousands of dollars of clothes every month.
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#1 Hayesfan, Jun 19, 2008

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Can Tmac adopt me?

#2 R0ckets03, Jun 19, 2008
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Two words. Gold digger.

#3 MacFu, Jun 19, 2008
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he made it , he needs to support it.

#4 dntrwl, Jun 19, 2008
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Tmac makes some solid cash but you start doing the math and unless his endorsements are substantial he is spending money in a manor that is going to leave him broke within 5 years of retiring.

How do these grown men not understand that?

#5 Dave_78, Jun 19, 2008
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I remember that dirty filthbag Karl Malone. By the time he had already made 100 mil he refused to pay $100 week for child support i hope that heathen creature burns in hell.

When did Tracy have this baby...and did wifey know about this?

#7 sook, Jun 19, 2008

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dntrwl said:

he made it , he needs to support it.
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$4500 / month is way more than necessary. This woman can sit on her butt all day for 18 years.

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Dave_78 said:

Tmac makes some solid cash but you start doing the math and unless his endorsements are substantial he is spending money in a manor that is going to leave him broke within 5 years of retiring.

How do these grown men not understand that?
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T-MAC has more than enough already...his shoes have already raked in tremendous amounts, not to mention all of his other crap.

He already has his own private jet and everything. The thing with T-MAC also is that in the last year of his contract he plays HARD the entire year so he can get signed to a big one next season, he's smart unlike spreewell or Pipen

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He should have fought for custody of his child, that way he could spend $54,000 on his kid without that gold digger spendin' in on her college education.

#10 pmac, Jun 19, 2008
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36 YEARS OLD????

#11 ooliverb1, Jun 19, 2008
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Old news, but it was interesting to read the $$ amounts.

Man, is using a condom REALLY that difficult?

#12 MayoRocket, Jun 19, 2008
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You spend that much money on party and traveling and can't even support someone on tuition??? C'mon!

#13 Yao4REAL, Jun 19, 2008

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sook said:

When did Tracy have this baby...and did wifey know about this?
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remember two years back when we had allstar game in houston and he was going through off court stuff that he said was worse anything he ever went through? yup this is it

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pics of the woman?

she better be hot, have a nice booty and a great set of dsl's.

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Women are such b****es sometimes, just because shes a w**** doesnt mean T-Mac needs to give her a crap load of money.

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Damn why do these players keeeep

having kids??

cant you just sleeeeep around but "pull out"

what are they thinking?

#17 Luckyazn, Jun 19, 2008
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dntrwl said:

he made it , he needs to support it.
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it doesn't take $54,000 a year to raise a kid.

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dntrwl said:

he made it , he needs to support it.
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no doubt.. i seriously hope he plays a part in that child's life.. even if it was an "accident"

#19 Precision340, Jun 19, 2008
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BigSherv said:

pics of the woman?

she better be hot, have a nice booty and a great set of dsl's.
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heck yeah man... they better be high speed dsl's too

#20 Precision340, Jun 19, 2008

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