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Judge Sets Kardashian Divorce Court Date

The superior court judge handling the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries divorce has set May 6, 2013 as the start date for the trial. The choice of date itself became a mini-legal tussle before the actual trial gets underway.

Kardashian and Humphries got married in Aug 2011. The marriage preparations and the actual wedding were telecast on E! as a two-part episode on the Kardashian family’s reality TV show. Kardashian filed for divorce in October in the Los Angeles Superior Court 72 days after the marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

Humphries subsequently filed his own response, seeking an annulment or a decree of legal separation because he claimed the entire marriage was a publicity stunt, perpetrated by the Kardashians for boosting their TV show ratings.
When the trial begins on May 6, it will be up to Humphries to prove that the marriage was a fraud. Kardashian’s ex-publicist has also publicly confirmed that the wedding was staged.

Back in February, Kardashian’s lawyers had themselves asked the court to set the trial date for May 6, 2013. However, they subsequently filed an ex parte application to move the trial date forward from Monday to the prior Friday on May 3, 2013. They cited her unavailability on May 6 (Kim Kardashian apparently has to be in New York for her fragrance line).
Humphries’ lawyers responded they and their client were not available on May 3, so they suggested May 7 instead, since all parties would be able to attend. Kardashian’s team refused to accept May 3, so Humphries’ team filed an opposition to the ex-parte application, requesting the judge to keep the date unchanged and allow the trial to go ahead as planned on May 6.

Kim Kardashian will not be present for the first day of the trial, and she does not need to be since she is not scheduled to take the stand that day, and Humphries’ team will be presenting witnesses to prove their case that the marriage was a fraud.

Did you know?
Unlike divorce, an annulment clears the record as if the marriage never occurred.
Annulments can be obtained for many reasons, including fraud, bigamy and physical incapability of consummating the marriage. They can also be obtained if one of the spouses turns out to be of unsound mind, or even if both spouses change their mind and mutually decide to get an annulment immediately after the wedding.