New chapter of the soap opera between Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario and her ex: another trial for August in Miami

There is already a new judicial appointment of the eternal divorce of Arantxa Sanchez Vicario y Joseph Santacana. The new chapter of the complicated life of the former tennis player will take place next August in Miami. The winner of four Roland Garros and the businessman have not yet reached a legal agreement, they have not signed the divorce papers for five years and there is nothing positive left from their relationship. Their lawsuits are still open and have not yet found a solution, neither in Miami nor in Spain.

According to the magazine woman todaySánchez Vicario and Santacana have been involved for years in a “judicial trap” that they themselves created, due to the game of lawsuits and counterclaims that began in January 2018, when they decided to divorce.

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And it is that, for economic reasons, the couple wanted to carry out the process in different countries. If the divorce was executed in our country, the marriage agreements that Josep signed before getting married in 2008, which established the regime of separation of property, would still be in force. On the other hand, if the process was carried out in Miami, the capitulations signed were without effect, so Santacana was obliged to declare his assets and companies in which he appears.

The string of claims and counterclaims date back to the month of January 2018, when on the 3rd Santacana filed for divorce in the Florida Court, and did the same on February 22, but in a court in Esplugues de Llobregat in Spain. Without the end of the month, on the 26th, Josep withdrew the divorce petition that he had filed in Florida. Just that same day, he filed the same lawsuit in the same place with his ex-wife, Atantxa.

The goal of the athlete with this was to find out where the fortune that she had earned throughout her life, disappeared after marrying Josep, was located. And it is that the Spanish tennis player had a heritage of about 35 million euros between properties and bank accounts when she married on September 12, 2008. After the marriage breakup, Arantxa went to see how her accounts were and the money she had accumulated , with the logical earnings as an excellent tennis player since childhood, had disappeared.

Already in 2012, the winner of four Olympic medals filed a lawsuit against her family, and their lawyers, for having appropriated more than 16 million euros of her fortune while she was a child and adolescent, a matter for which the tennis player has already He asked his family for forgiveness in order to recover the relationship. Until her fortune was in the hands of her husband, it was the athlete’s parents who managed it, never her.

In 2018, Sánchez Vicario’s lawyer in Miami, Ryan McCarthy He demonstrated the disappearance of the money by publicly explaining that the athlete had nothing in her name, and that she could not even access her funds, since until then her husband had taken care of them.

Another lawyer hired by Arantxa, Maurice Kutner, revealed what Josep’s true interests were, when he explained that he did not want to find out how the divorce process was going in Florida. “His goal is to protect the money he has taken from Mrs. Sánchez and not provide any information about the assets. This is obviously much more important to him than having even a minimal relationship with his own children,” he said at the time. lawyer. The couple had Arantxa, who is now 13 years old, and Leo, 11 years old.

The trial that will take place in Miami in August promises, because in addition to the fact that it could provide progress in the resolution of this complicated and long divorce process, if Santacana declares the assets and companies that he has, the issue of the sale can also be resolved. of the apartment that the couple bought in 2015 in the Paraiso Bay towers in the capital of the southern United States.