Dukes alimony hearing postponed
TAMPA -- A hearing on whether Elijah Dukes' estranged wife will get temporary alimony and child support was postponed Friday after Dukes didn't show up.
A judge ordered the outfielder, who was dropped from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays roster last month, to appear in court on Monday so the hearing could go forward.
There was confusion over whether Dukes knew of the hearing in Hillsborough Circuit Court Friday. His wife, NiShea Gilbert Dukes, is seeking the support while their divorce proceedings go forward.
-- Abbie VanSickle, Times Staff Writer
(Times photo by Carrie Pratt: NiShea Gilbert, left, speaks with her attorney, Catherine W. Real, and law clerk Joshua Teets after the hearing)
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THIS IS NOT NEWS...PLEASE STOP HARPING ON IT AND DO YOUR JOB. FIND SOMETHING THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF BEING A STUPID GOSSIP COLUMN!
Posted by: Jeremy | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Jeremy no one is forcing you to read the articles. Don't read it if you don't want to hear about it.
Posted by: Katie | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Katie, don't read my comments if they bother you... :-P
Posted by: Jeremy | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Funny how that argument works both ways huh?
Posted by: Jeremy | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:31 PM
And by the way...if this is news, what business is it of yours or mine what Elijah Dukes has to pay his wife in alimony. My point was that a reporters time, especially one from a "Top Ten Paper", could be spent informing people of worthwhile things happening in the area. Details of a celebrity divorce doesn't belong anywhere but Entertainment Tonight or the Enquirer...but I guess that's what people care about nowadays...not war, gas prices, or corruption, or anything else of any consequence. Just news about trash, that's all most of you rabelrousers want to read anyway. Get a life!
Posted by: Jeremy | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Ms. Gilbert needs to read the article about her attorney, Catherine Real, that ran in the TIMES last August 24. Written by Colleen Jenkins and titled "Peers Turn on Judicial Hopeful", it details her lawyer's ethical challenges and what her some of her peers in the Hillsborough County family law community think of Ms. Real.
Posted by: T.J. | Friday, July 13, 2007 at 02:19 PM