The last controversy that overshadowed the life of Fernando Fernandez Tapiaswho died this Wednesday at the age of 84, was his legal battle against his older children: Fernando, Borja e Íñigowhich are the result of his first marriage with Chiqui de la Rivaa relationship from which was also born Boscowho died in 2010 after a diving accident. Juan Carlos y Sandrafor their part, were born from his second marriage with Juana García Courel.
His older offspring sued him in 2021 to legally incapacitate him and thus challenge the transfer of powers that he had initiated months before in his business conglomerate. It must be remembered that Fernández Tapias dismissed the elders in favor of another of his sons, Juan Carlos, who would go on to become president of one of his main companies. Nuria Gonzalezin turn, began to play a very important role, as they recalled this Thursday in This is life: “The businessman’s new, young wife became one of the company’s main administrators.”
The version known until now was that the court ruled in favor of the first vice president of Real Madrid and dismissed the claim for incapacity on the grounds that the shipowner continued to have full use of his powers.
However, on Sandra Barneda’s program they assured this Thursday that “Fernando Fernández Tapias did become incapacitated due to the lawsuit filed by his older children in 2021. The judge ruled in said trial that Fernández Tapias was not in full authority to manage.” According to the program, they declared “the defendant in civil status of partial incapacitywhich would be limited to the area of health and the economic-legal-administrative skills necessary to manage your assets and material assets.”
In this sense, Jorge Pérez has highlighted that it could have been a strategy on the part of Fernández Tapias: “From what they tell me, it belongs to a kind of judicial strategy in which he voluntarily pretends to be partially incapacitated to protect his companies. It is to protect their societies. You can become partially incapacitated just because of age.”