Matt Barnes Accuses Gloria Govan of Child Support Trickery

Last month former reality TV Gloria Govan was awarded a default six-figure back child support judgement after her ex-husband Matt Barnes ignored her filing [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Matt is accusing Gloria of knowingly serving him at a non-working email address and never mentioning a discrepancy in child support despite being in constant contact about their kids...  

From Radar Online

Ex-NBA star Matt Barnes has hired a lawyer to fight his ex-wife Gloria Govan after she obtained a $133k judgment against him, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In newly filed documents, Barnes said he had no idea about the hearing and was not properly notified. He said he contests the amount Govan claims he owes in back child support.

In his filing, he accused Govan of “serving” him with the legal papers at an email address he no longer uses. He said his ex knew the email had not been used but still used it to “serve” him.

Barnes said he hasn’t used the email address in over a year since the account was hacked. He claimed Govan knew of this and has consistently used his new email address. Further, he said she claimed to have served him at his home. Barnes said he never received any documents.

He told the court after finding out about the judgment from news reports, he quickly hired a lawyer to represent him in the case.

He added that Gloria never once mentioned the hearing to him despite them being in constant contact about their sons.

He said, Gloria and I texted the evening of March 8, 2023—the very same day as she appeared in Court on her RFO and secured a default order against me. At no point did Gloria mention her RFO, that I failed to appear, or the default order that resulted. She made no mention of it either in the following days.”

Barnes said he wants the judgment vacated and a hearing set for him to argue his side of things.