Dwyane Wade wins in another court granting him custody of sons
Dwyane Wade granted custody for sons
A Chicago court has granted Dwyane Wade the sole ‘care, custody and control’ of his two sons with ex-wife, Siohvaughn Wade whom he separated in August 2007 but was only officially divorced in June 2010.
The court granted Wade the sole custody last Friday explaining its decision in a 102—page ruling in which the tone of words according to the Associated Press was a ‘sharp’ attack to wade’s estranged wife.
"This court finds that (Siohvaughn Wade) has embarked on an unstoppable and relentless pattern of conduct for over two years to alienate the children from their father, and lacks either the ability or the willingness to facilitate, let alone encourage, a close and continuing relationship between them," the AP quoted a portion of the ruling entered by Judge Renee G. Goldfarb.
Wade did not tell his team of the decision admitted the actor to AP, explaining that he wanted his sons to have the full grasp of their new situation.
"My life changed in a huge way," Wade said, according to AP. "Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives."
His two boys arrived in Miami shortly after the ruling was filed on Friday. And on Saturday his teammates gave him the ‘rousing ovation’, added AP, after they were informed of Wade’s courtroom victory in a locker room meeting following Miami’s win over Grizzlies.
Wade’s twin win that day noted the Associated could not have been ‘coincidental’ but the player’s performance said AP was at a different level in a game against Memphis Grizzlies, attributing it to Wade’s new-found win against his long-custody battle over his two kids.
He said that finding out the decision Friday, he went out to the court played the ball as freely as he could possibly enjoy the same way he was absorbing his courtroom win.
"I heard the best news I could possibly hear," Wade said, adding the news had given him a whole new different kind of game that day. "So I was like, 'I'm going to go out there and play free and enjoy it.
The player said that things are already planned out for his boys, realizing that these are the ‘easy part’ when he said: "We had to have that, nanny care, everything already booked and planned out."
The NBA star said that he wanted his kids to have a healthy relationship with their mother, too.
"I'm not going to say, 'OK, I won,'" Wade said. "I think them living here, being here, it's a great opportunity for them and I'm looking forward to it for them, to grow up with me and us learning together, how to be father-son. So I'm excited."
Wade’s attorney, James Pritikin said that the custody trial Wade had to battle against is considered “one of the longest ever in Cook Country history”.