When future NBA hall of famer Steve Nash first signed on with the Los Angeles Lakers he talked about hittin’ a few jumpers, maybe winning a championship, and how his family would benefit by him being so close to his children. Now, however, the superstar guard finds himself in a full court press to keep those same children in Arizona and out of California.
That’s because Nash’s ex-wife, Alejandra Amarilla, has spiced things up by attempting to move the couple’s children to California in order to get a child support order from her ex. This in turn appears to have prompted her aging point guard ex to dig in for what promises to be an expensive legal battle for the two.
Mom says she just wants to move the kids to California so they can spend more time with their father. And she’s hired one of L.A.s biggest divorce lawyers to prove it – and maybe to do a little battle in both the California and Arizona family law courts. Dad, on the other hand, believes it’s all just a scheme to get child support and not necessarily what’s in the best interests for the kids.
The couple announced their split in 2010, five years after they were married. Previously, an Arizona family law judge ruled that Amarilla is not entitled to child support in Arizona, however, she might be able to seek it in California, should she move there.
So maybe there are better schools in California, as mom has stated. And maybe the former Mrs. Steve Nash and the former couple’s children will enjoy living in California for six months and…if things haven’t settled by then…mom can file in California’s family law court. And the child support case will be back on, only this time it’ll be California style. And little Stevie will probably be on the financial hook for a heckuva lot more than if he’d just settled things with the former missus back in Arizona.
