Mother Of Fernando Tatis Jr.’s Daughter Demands More Child Support
The mum of Fernando Tatis Jr.‘s two-year-old daughter is dragging the MLB celebrity to court docket in an aim to effort to get him to dole out extra kid backup … however the San Diego Padres outfielder’s legal professional claims she’s spewing lies within the procedure.
Jennifer Rodriguez claimed this occasion in court docket paperwork, got via GWN Sports activities, that again in September 2021 — following a yearslong, non-exclusive courting — she become pregnant with Tatis Jr.’s kid.
She stated within the medical doctors that, to begin with, she had was hoping the 2 would paintings in combination to co-parent their child … however following a paternity check that showed Tatis Jr. was once the daddy — the baseball participant and the ones akin to him started treating the “impending birth like a business deal.”
She stated all in their conversations previous to their daughter’s June 2022 delivery month led her to signal an NDA … and an resulting personal kid backup oath that she says she needed to negotiate “on my own” generation 9 months pregnant.
As a part of the pact, Tatis Jr. — who inked a immense, 13-year, $240 million commitment with the Padres in 2021 — indubitably to pay Rodriguez $20,000 a life.
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Occasion she stated Tatis Jr. has since fulfilled that legal responsibility … she claimed within the medical doctors that following their daughter’s delivery, he’s been in large part absent from their child’s generation.
Rodriguez stated regardless of she and him proceeding their romantic courting via Would possibly 2023 — Tatis Jr. has handiest perceptible his daughter on 5 independent events … for a complete of 4 hours.
And, she says to manufacture issues worse, when she just lately approached him and his akin circle about paying extra in kid backup when she realized that his every year wage would build up from $5,000,000 in 2022 to a whopping $36,000,000 in 2029 — she won pushback.
She’s now asking a pass judgement on to bump up what Tatis Jr. has to pay in kid backup bills.
“I have come to understand how little [our daughter] has compared to the benefits that Fernando receives for being a visible MLB star and local San Diego celebrity,” she stated. “I have also come to understand how much it will cost to support a child to live at Fernando’s station in life.”
Within the medical doctors, she claimed 25-year-old Tatis Jr. is living in a massive house, drives fancy automobiles, and “that in San Diego, if not all over the country, doors open for him in every facet of his life.”
“Our daughter is entitled to share in that lifestyle,” she stated.
Moreover, Rodriguez is looking for Tatis Jr. to pay her lawyers charges — which she says general round $250,000.
A court docket listening to at the topic has been slated for December.
For Tatis Jr.’s phase, his legal professional, Michael Strauss, stated in a observation to us on Friday, “Ms. Rodriguez’s decision to push out a false narrative about Fernando and the Tatís family is nothing new.”
“He is confident in the legal process and trusts that Ms. Rodriguez’s claims about him will not hold up in court. He loves and supports his daughter and will continue to do so.”

