Eighteen months and counting. In June 2007, San Francisco 49′er legend Jerry Rice’s wife Jacqueline filed for divorce from the superstar. Here we are, over a year and a half later, no divorce yet. But a settlement may yet be on the horizon.
Married for 20 years, the couple continues to try to hammer out a divorce settlement in San Mateo County, California. When we last checked in, their marital home was still on the market and they had exchanged financial documents. Not sure if the house has been sold but we don’t see it in local real estate listings.
Jacqueline Rice replaced her original divorce attorney Lindy Barocchi with Philip Silvestri, back in August. Two status conferences were rescheduled in late summer and early fall. Then, in January, the attorneys submitted a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) to the judge for signature. The case is currently set for a status conference in April.
QDRO’s are legal orders, signed by a family law judge, which direct the administrators of retirement plans to re-title or divide retirement assets in conjunction with a divorce. When a QDRO is appropriately used, the distribution out of the original retirement account is accomplished without penalty or tax. Generally, QDRO are issued only at the conclusion of the divorce proceedings after the parties have agreed to property settlement terms or a judge has distributed retirement assets in a dissolution judgment.
On occasion, however, QDRO’s are used prior to the finalization of a divorce. In these situations, the money is usually tapped for payment of attorneys’ fees or other needs of the other spouse. Without knowing the Rices’ financial situation, it is difficult to speculate the reason for this early distribution of funds. It may suggest, though, that they are closing in on a settlement – if they were both comfortable with allowing these funds to be transferred to Jacqueline prior to finalization of the split.
Library Topics: divorce, marriage, property distribution, California family law
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Why? Was it worth it? Your wife & children. You were going to be my sons role model, however i would rather my son be a faithful boyfriend/husband then him be as great of a football player as you were. You were my idol
now u r just another cheating ,lying,good for nothing guy who had issues and could only deal with it by using your other head.I wish i had your wife’s courage and strength so I could do the same.If you did cheat on your wife then i feel nothing but pity for you.If you didn’t and the media is wrong and it was the other way around then i feel your pain, however cheating is wrong. I pray i am wrong.
Looks like Jerry drop the best catch he’s ever had…
@ dianna. You sound like a bitter woman. If she is anything like you I would have left her too. Divorces happen. Sometimes it’s BOTH of their faults. Women need to stop watching Oprah and being the victim.
@Johnlee, it’s already been proving that Jerry Rice is a womanizer. Above poster may be bitter, but don’t try to justify it.
I kno Rice was a womanizer cuz one of my ex’s said he once tried to screw her although he may have cuz she was found out to be a (man-izer)if there is a word…. but anyway people get married for all the wrong reasons and divorce for all right reasons…so they think…no one holds “vows” as a priority anymore…they say for better or worse…if loves cover then what were their marriage foundated on…Rice will be charged to the failure of his marriage cuz he was head of his household…I just pray the next time he gets married he fulfill his vows…as should his soon to be ex-wife….
I agree with Jay El, Sr. I am hold marriage as a high honor and unfortunately these days people play it and most relationships as game. No matter football player, woman or Average Joe, we have to realize marriage has to be worked at and a fire has to be kept. And no offense, Johnlee, people who say things as you did usually are the same culprit of the offense. Men tend to be the usual suspects. No one is perfect, and if your human and loved the person you were with (no matter woman or man) you become bitter once hurt. Divorce shouldn’t happen as much as it does, if people respect that it is hard to live with someone and love them for the good and the bad. People take the gift of marriage for granted. People have to find self control and honor love, if they aren’t happy don’t cheat. Break up; yes it will hurt but the other person may respect you more for the honesty. People need to find true Agape love and no it’s never easy but worth it. I am sure Jerry regrets his actions, because 20 years wasn’t for nothing. He had to love his wife, and probably still does, but trust is gone.
property is always a problem when couples go to divorce. and I would like to know the reason why they want to divorce.
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