Tristan Thompson likely impregnated his side-chick Maralee Nichols earlier this year, when he was still with Khloe Kardashian. He was sleeping with Maralee “sporadically” for months, by his own account, from December 2020 through March/April 2021. They would apparently met up in various cities, meaning she would fly out to wherever he was so they could hook up. Which led Tristan to believe that he could countersue Maralee in Texas, the state where they likely conceived the baby. Neither Tristan nor Maralee is a resident of Texas. She initially sued him for paternity/child support in California, where they both legally reside. Tristan sued her in Texas not just because that’s where they conceived the child, but because he believed Texas laws would be easier on him. Well, funny story – Tristan’s Texas countersuit was just thrown out.
While Tristan Thompson and Maralee Nichols’ legal battle is far from over, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal that a judge ruled to dismiss the paternity lawsuit and child support case filed by the NBA player in Texas.
According to a source, both Thompson, 30, and Nichols, 31, were present and gave live testimonies at the virtual hearing on Wednesday, December 15. While the personal trainer filed a paternity lawsuit against the athlete in California in June, Thompson took legal action against Nichols in July in Texas, where he alleged she owns property.
“Regardless of whether any act of conception occurred in Texas that could have led to the conception of the child, they [allegedly] had a lengthy relationship spanning multiple states,” the source told Us about Wednesday’s hearing. “The child was born in California, the mother resides there and so does Tristan. It would make sense the judge would dismiss this given the facts and the California lawsuit filed prior to the Texas one.”
Us broke the news earlier this month that Nichols welcomed a baby boy after she allegedly had an affair with Thompson in March — during his relationship with Khloé Kardashian.
In October, Nichols’ team claimed that during Thompson’s deposition, he “refused to answer basic questions relating to jurisdictional issues between California and Texas, and counsel for Tristan further instructed him not to answer related questions on dozens of occasions.” The following month, the Sacramento Kings player asked for a paternity test in a separate petition. Thompson has since admitted to communicating with Nichols via Snapchat.
It sounds to me like Maralee has good lawyers and they’re staying on target and not putting up with Tristan’s attempts to undermine Maralee’s claims. Basically, this means that everything will be California-based now, and a California court will figure this out… if the child is indeed Tristan’s. We still haven’t gotten confirmation that the DNA test was done, we only know that Maralee didn’t want the genetic testing done while she was pregnant.
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He is such a garbage human being, I hope she takes him to the bank honestly.
While I know traditional paternity tests used to involve a needle into the abdomen, they are now able to do non-invasive paternity testing.
I am curious as to why she would wait, I would want everything to be lined up and ready to go as soon as I could. He is so trash it is no surprise he would try and make it as difficult as possible.
And no judgement from me on waiting on the paternity test at all! I hated being pregnant and I get tired just thinking about dealing with all of this while pregnant and with a newborn. I
As far as I know, genetic testing of the fetus while pregnant comes with a chance of miscarriage. If it’s not something health related, I completely understand waiting.
I agree with her wanting to wait. It’s much better to wait until after the birth to do any non-critical testing. Any invasive procedure to the uterine sac has a chance of miscarriage.
Survey says…”Texas declines. Go on, git.”
He is such a horrible human. He should just go away and climb into a dark hole and never come out.
That display of luxury goods is just obscene.
So obnoxious, and so ugly.
Ah yes the Kardashian way of doing things. Spend lots of money on lawyers and sue sue sue ! That way people will think they are the innocent ones.
I just love when men think because you’re not “officially” in a relationship or are only having sex “sporadically” that means the woman just magically can’t get pregnant.
On one of the 16 and Pregnant shows the dude was all “we weren’t even boyfriend/girlfriend and we only slept together once!”
It’s not just Tristan who is trying to undermine Nichols, the press needs to acknowledge the role that Kris, Khloe, and Kim are also playing in disparaging Nichols.
The one part I don’t get is the refusing to have the DNA test. They have had the ability to take blood from mothers who are pregnant and separate out baby blood in the bloodstream for at least eight years. So why delay? That test can be done at the two month mark.
@Ca why should she do anything to prove what she knows. And no matter how safe it is she may not have wanted to do anything that would put the baby at risk to prove something to a douchebag. And hopefully he can sell those giant Birkin bags to a pay child support since he will be a retired out of work player next year *side eye*
@AppleCart. Exactly, why should she. Its not like he has booked a one way ticket to Mars and needs to settle all outstanding issues here on earth. F@ck him. He can wait until the court makes a formal order. He doesn’t want this kind of hassle, then don’t have a community d!ck. or at least take responsibility/precautionary measures to counter any fall out from that enthusiastic sharing.
If other sources are correct, she moved from Texas while pregnant and established residency in California. Perhaps she learned of Texas child support laws and fled to a totally different support outlook.
Tristan eventually will learn to wrap it up. I seriously doubt Khloe ask for support from him. He’s a cheater for sure, but so is she.
Hopefully they will co parent this child peacefully. I’ll wait on paternity results but I’m sure it’s his child.