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Cheri Olvera, Brian Giles and Suing After a Breakup

pSan Diego Padres outfielder, Brian Giles, has been sued by his former girlfriend, Cheri Olvera. In a href="http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sports/olveragiles112508cmp.html"Olvera's $10 million suit/a, filed in San Diego Superior Court, she alleges a href="http://family.findlaw.com/living-together/living-together-money-property/cohabitation-property-rights.html"breach of an oral cohabitation agreement/a after the two broke up.  pAccording to Olvera, Giles was violent, and she suffered battering and abuse throughout their relationship. The abuse was so bad that Olvera claims to have had a miscarriage. A a href="http://news.lalate.com/2008/12/17/cheri-olvera-video/"video/a released by a href="http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2849338_1?channel=LP"Olvera's attorney, Cary W. Goldstein/a, purportedly shows the outfielder attacking Olvera.  pThe a href="http://family.findlaw.com/domestic-violence/"domestic violence/a reportedly began when the couple began living together in a ?a href="http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/"marriage/a-like relationship from in or about 2002 to April 2008.? Although the two were engaged, Olvera did not marry Giles because of the violence. Although they did live together, California is nospan id="fck_dom_range_temp_1229550601401_974"/spant a a href="http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/living-together/common-law-states.html"common law marriage state/a. pAlthough there was no formal a href="http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/marriage-agreements/"prenuptial agreement/a, the complaint alleges that Giles agreed to provide for Olvera and her daughter financially while she devoted herself to his needs. Olvera also maintains that they had an oral agreement that if their relationship ended, Giles' a href="http://news.lp.findlaw.com/features/2008-top-10-consumer-issues.html#9"assets would be equitably divided between the former couple./a pIn a report of the a href="http://news.lp.findlaw.com/features/2008-top-10-consumer-issues.html"Top 10 Legal Issues of 2008 /aby FindLaw.com, a href="http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/marriage-property/marital-property.html"distribution of assets /aspan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"after a relationship ends was included as a major legal issue faced by consumers this year./span/p pspan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span id="ppt1404340" ul lispan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span id="ppt1404340" pa href="http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2008/12/17/brian-giles-allegedly-beat-his-pregnant-girlfriend-caused-misca/"Brian Giles Allegedly Beat His Pregnant Girlfriend, Caused Miscarriage/a (AOL Sports)/p/span/span lispan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span pa href="http://family.findlaw.com/"FindLaw's Family Law Center/a/p/span/span lispan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span pa href="http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/"FindLaw's Divorce Resources/a/p/span/span lispan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span pa href="http://news.lp.findlaw.com/features/2008-top-10-consumer-issues.html"Top 10 Consumer Legal Issues of 2008/a/p/span/span lispan style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span pa href="http://lawyers.findlaw.com/lawyer/practice/Divorce"Find a Divorce Lawyer in Your State/a/p/span/spanspan style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"/span/span/li /li/li/li/li/ul /span/span p/p p/p p/p p/p p/p/p/p/p/p/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BJoSq4-20vXmEMbsD4zXs9nFJ9k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BJoSq4-20vXmEMbsD4zXs9nFJ9k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=yvVfdZyg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=6vDUN3wk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=6vDUN3wk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=jJieAVHJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?d=54" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=VosV0sHF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=VosV0sHF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=MCYASxXY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=MCYASxXY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FindLawsCommonLaw/~4/bhHYme6ygTM" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by FindLaw's Common Law on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).