‘Likely To Give Birth Any Day’: Ruben Gallego Served Pregnant Wife With Divorce Papers. She Was Blindsided.
The Arizona Democrat also wanted his ex-wife, Kate Gallego, to pay his attorney’s fees
Eliana Johnson | October 17, 2024On Dec. 15, 2016, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.)
filed for divorce from his wife, Kate Gallego, then a Phoenix city councilwoman. He filed a motion to seal the case file on the same day.
That seal was lifted on Thursday after a
10-month court battle between the Gallegos and the Washington Free Beacon, in which the Free Beacon prevailed in the Yavapai County Superior Court, the
Arizona Court of Appeals, and, finally, on Wednesday evening, at the Arizona Supreme Court, which rejected a
last-ditch effort from the couple to keep the records under wraps.
It was Ruben Gallego who moved to seal the record back in 2016. In his memorandum making the case to the court, he noted that Kate Gallego had "not yet been served" with divorce papers, nor had "her attorney entered an appearance" in the case, but that she was "likely to give birth any day."
Gallego’s petition for divorce stipulated that the "parties’ marriage is irretrievably broken" and that "there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation." But Kate Gallego appears to have been blindsided by her husband’s decision. When she responded to her husband’s filing in February of 2017, she said she was "without knowledge of information sufficient to form a belief" about her husband’s claim that the marriage was broken beyond repair—and she denied the allegation.
The newly unsealed file also shows that Gallego wanted his wife to foot the bill for the divorce proceedings, stipulating that he was "entitled to an award of attorney’s fees" pursuant to . . .
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/likely-to-give-birth-any-day-ruben-gallego-served-pregnant-wife-with-divorce-papers-she-was-blindsided/
