Sherri Shepard Won a 'Huge Victory' in Her Child Support Drama With Her Ex-Husband
CelebritiesDirt BagA judge has denied Sherri Shepard’s ex husband Lamar Sally’s request for an increase in child support payments —a tiny victory for Shepard in what has been a legally complicated and strange child support case, ongoing since 2015.
The child in question was conceived by surrogate, using Sally’s sperm and a surrogate’s egg, so Shepard has no biological relation to the child, who has been raised by Sally since August 2014, shortly after the couple split. The child support battle has been particularly twisted, with Shepard alleging that Sally only went through with the plan in order to get child support from Shepard.
In December 2016, Sally filed a request for an increase in child support due to an increase in Shepard’s earnings, while also requesting that Shepard pay for the lawyers’ fees associated with their legal battle. And now, a judge has denied these requests, hopefully putting the entire convoluted mess to rest.
A statement from Shepard’s reps to People reads: