Jamie McCourt is likely to ask that a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles put the Dodgers on sale immediately, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday, citing two sources of knowledge of the legal proceedings.
Judge Scott Gordon, who manages the Frank and Jamie McCourt Dodgers owners divorce, should determine a date Thursday at the request of Jamie McCourt will be heard, the report.
With Commissioner Bud Selig after having appointed a supervisor to monitor the Dodgers in the team of mounting financial difficulties, the Times reported that Jamie McCourt should legal maneuver is designed to ensure that any potential sale of the Dodgers could be controlled by the McCourts over the major League Baseballmust Selig eventually pass to enter the club.
Baseball officials believe that the Dodgers do not have enough cash to make their pay end-of-may, which extends approximately 8.25 million. If Frank McCourt is unable to make payroll, MLB could intervene and pay players, avoiding a default value, which could become free agents. Baseball could then start the process of trying to force a sale of the team. Gordon j. invalidated a post-nuptial agreement giving Frank McCourt sole owner of the team, allowing Jamie to get half of the franchise.
During this time, Frank McCourt said a deal with Fox television would solve the financial problems of the Dodgers. He criticized Selig not to approve the $ 3 billion agreement which would give the club about 300 million dollars to the front.
Selig said that he not make any decision on the Fox agreement, until Tom Schieffer, Selig appointed to oversee the Dodgers, conducted a survey on the finances of the team.
The Times also reported Wednesday that Fox would not go forward with the contract, without the approval of Jamie McCourt because the TV company does not want to risk his opposing the agreement in the courts.
Sources close to Jamie McCourt said Molly Knight of ESPN The Magazine that Jamie has been alarmed by the prospect of its fairness draining the Dodgers ex-husband as he digs against the MLB in support of the club. California community property States that the named person in control of a common good is an obligation on the part not control to protect assets decrease significantly in value. Jamie lawyers are expected to argue that the ownership of Frank is seriously impair the value of the Dodgers - and with it, potential Jamie take when the team is sold.
The Dodgers should seek more than 800 million if sold this summer - but the team could go up to $ 1 billion, sources say.
Court documents filed in the issuing of contentious divorce of the McCourts owners had taken on debt $ 490 million against the Dodgers between 2004 and 2009. No new number of debt have been released to the public since then, but two sources of knowledge of the finances of the team say that number is higher now. In the case of a sale, creditors and the IRS shall be paid before either McCourt could see all of the profits; However, it is not known if there would be no cash left.
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