Porsha Williams Granted Large Victory in Ongoing Divorce

Porsha Williams was awarded an enormous victory in her divorce from Simon Guobadia.

Within the newest ruling within the case, the court docket granted Williams her request to “quash” Guobadia’s subpoena and request for a videotaped deposition of her employer, True Leisure, together with a movement for a protecting order.

A decide additionally denied Guobadia’s emergency motions relating to discovery and awarded Williams’ lawyer’s charges and bills of litigation to be paid by Guobadia.

The submitting additionally pertains to their prenuptial settlement.

In keeping with the docs, Guobadia “argues that Spouse’s need to return to actuality tv or employment sooner or later constitutes a non-disclosure of fabric reality and misrepresentation, that renders the Prenuptial Settlement unenforceable.”

Addressing Guobadia’s claims that Williams agreed to be a stay-at-home mother and spouse throughout their marriage and forgo her personal profession, the court docket discovered them to be invalid.

The court docket didn’t “discover advantage” in his argument “because the Court docket finds that Spouse has been a actuality TV superstar for years, which was well-known to Husband on the time of negotiating the Prenuptial Settlement, and Husband nonetheless married Spouse with this data.”

After starring on Bravo’s The Actual Housewives of Atlanta from seasons 5-13, Williams left in September 2021, 4 months after they introduced their engagement in Could 2021. Earlier this yr it was introduced she can be returning for the upcoming sixteenth season.

Within the couple’s prenuptial settlement, it states that its “central objective… is to keep away from contested and costly litigation, together with the pricey and probably intrusive discovery course of, if an Occasion of Dissolution happens.” 

The ruling reads that the court docket finds it “undisputed by each events that the Prenuptial Settlement at situation on this case was negotiated by the events with very competent legal professionals over a yr size of time, and included the trade of monetary disclosures, such that the problems of fraud, mistake, misrepresentation, and duress are clearly addressed in a number of provisions of the Prenuptial Settlement.”

“Primarily, the crux of Husband’s argument might have been explicitly contained throughout the 4 corners of the events’ Prenuptial Settlement, and it was not,” it continued.

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It is a main victory for RHOA star, bringing her to the ultimate step of divorce proceedings. As soon as the couple’s prenuptial settlement is formally upheld by the court docket, Williams will probably be awarded her authorized bills by Guobadia and stroll away a single lady.

As a result of the paperwork specify that “serving, conducting, or making an attempt to serve or conduct, any discovery in any way, both upon/towards the opposite Social gathering or upon/towards any third-party, together with” written discovery, taking depositions and issuing subpoenas violates the prenup, Williams contested Guobadia’s actions and the court docket dominated in her favor.

Williams first filed for divorce in February after 15 months of marriage. On the time, a supply instructed PEOPLE the break up was as a consequence of an “ongoing matter.” Williams listed their marriage as “irretrievably damaged.”

The 2 started the back-and-forth filings after disagreeing over the validity of their prenup. The occupancy of their marital residence and Williams’ monetary standing given her current scripted growth cope with NBC Common have been additionally factors of rivalry.

Within the midst of the authorized battle, the truth TV persona slammed Guobadia for making “false statements and allegations” which can be “deliberately misrepresenting the truth of the state of affairs.”