Exclusive: Flo Rida Tries To Get Baby Mama’s $8K A Month Child Support Suit Tossed
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – FEBRUARY 02: Flo Rida attends the 15th Annual Leather & Laces Spectacular on February 2, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for Leather & Laces)
Flo Rida’s Baby Mama Alexis Adams Wants More Child Support To Care For Sick Son
A judge Monday shut down Flo Rida’s bid to get his son’s mother’s child support suit thrown out on a legal technicality.
Howard Felcher, who reps Flo Rida, asked Judge Shira Atzmon to dismiss Alexis Adams’ child support case against his client because he argued that although Adams sued Flo Rida in New York City, she was a resident of Atlanta, Ga. at the time.
Felcher said Adams leased an Atlanta apartment for $1,800 a month, had a driver’s license from the Peach State and didn’t give the court a New York City rental lease or proof of rental payments, nor did she have a New York voter registration card.
“She wrongly, deliberately and falsely claimed she was a Bronx resident,” Felcher told the judge.
But Adams’ lawyer, Jack Giordano, said the mom of one was born and raised in New York, received her pre and postnatal care in the state and lived with relatives in the Bronx as she raised her son Zohar, who will turn two in September. He said Adams applied for government assistance in New York and referred to Zohar’s birth certificate, which shows he was also born in New York. Giordano admitted that Adams used to work in Atlanta, but the judge later said that her brother was leasing the apartment in her name.
Adams’ lawyer also said Flo Rida had participated in all of the court proceedings during the more than year-long case and said he didn’t have the right to challenge the jurisdiction now.
The judge sided with Adams, ruling that the dancer and esthetician was, in fact, a New York resident, and said she’d presided over cases where those involved had submitted much less evidence as proof of residence.
The judge’s decision capped off a heated, nearly hour hearing that saw both sides trash talked the other.
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Feltcher said Adams was pleading poverty despite she herself admitting to earning $100,000 a year in cash and hadn’t filed a tax return for last year. She is not currently working and cares for their son full time.
“Ms. Adams is savvy,” Felcher said. “She is smart. She didn’t enter into this relationship blindly.”
Flo Rida’s lawyer also questioned whether she had other reasons for getting with the rapper and said her petition to the judge for an increase on her $8,000 a month in child support appeared to be little more than a money grab.
“Would a nanny be needed?” Felcher asked. “Would she need a $5,000 apartment? Would you have upped the support from $5,000 to $8,000?”
Giordano criticized Flo Rida for squabbling with Adams over what amounts to chump change for him, and reiterated Adams’ claim that Flo Rida had referred to their son as a “devil child.”
“You could call the petitioner a gold digger,” he said, “call his child a devil child, but the DNA doesn’t lie.”
Giordano added: “He’s arguing over $500 a month, which he spends in a night at the strip club!”
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NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 02: Rapper Flo Rida attends the 2017 Samsung Charity Gala at Skylight Clarkson Sq on November 2, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)
Flo Rida did not appear for the hearing, but Adams, clad in black pants and a white blouse, did attend with their baby son.
The judge stopped short of granting Adams’ request for an increase on her $8,000 a month child support so she could afford a highly trained nanny to help her care for Zohar, who the court heard sufferers from serious medical issues and needs eye surgery ASAP.
But at the hearing, it emerged that the “My House” rapper has refused to hand over his financial info and hasn’t filed taxes since 2012, so there was no way of calculating his current income to determine child support.
The judge later issued an order for Flo Rida to submit his 2017 tax return before the end of next month. Giordano said Adams would also submit her 2017 returns as well.
If they don’t agree on a settlement before then, the exes will have to appear back in court later this summer.
The judge also ordered Flo Rida to pony up $10,000 towards Adams’ lawyer fees.
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