It’s no surprise that reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s divorce may soon be coming to a TV near you.
Hollywood Life reports that, if Kardashian’s divorce from Kris Humphries goes in court, the proceedings could be televised because California has an “open policy” on popular cases.
If Kim Kardashian wants to keep the proceedings private, she can either reach a financial settlement with Humphries outside of court or accept his request for an annulment. Doing the latter would likely lead to unwanted exposure.
“An annulment is based on fraud… it requires corroboration, witnesses to back it up,” celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said. “The average person with a 60-day marriage would be talking with their lawyer about an annulment. But there is a lot of exposure involved in it and I just don’t think they want that. I think in this case it would hurt them; it’s easier to get divorced.”
Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries just 72 days after their August wedding. Despite reports that Humphries planned to sign the divorce documents, he instead filed for an annulment on the basis of fraud.
Under California law, Humphries would need to prove “deception regarding a significant matter that led to the marriage or the partnership and continued until the breakup” in order for his annulment request to be fulfilled.
Hollywood Life suggests that Kris Humphries’ team may be planning to use footage from “Kourtney & Kim Take New York” as evidence of fraud, which they believe was “developed with the theme of divorce, without Kris being made aware of it,” a source said.
Indeed, Kardashian’s discontent with her marriage played out all season on the show. In the Jan. 29 season finale, she tearfully breaks down about her ill-fated relationship after refusing to allow Humphries to move his things to her Los Angeles home.
Elsewhere in the Kardashian world, Kim has denied she is secretly dating NFL star Mark Sanchez, saying she is “completely done” with football players in general after her relationship with Reggie Bush. There were initial reports that Kim and Mark hooked-up while she was in New York, but in a recent Twitter post she told followers, “dating rumors are always fun when u don’t even know the people your supposedly linked to! Who makes this stuff up!”
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1366614
