Dwyane Wade Divorce Update: Ex-Wife Siohvaughn Funches Has Gone Through 12 Lawyers, Arrested Last Week

Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife was again arrested just days before her public meltdown in downtown Chicago and sought to part ways with her 12th attorney since divorce proceedings with her ex-NBA husband commenced, according to news reports.

Siohvaughn Funches-Wade was taken into custody after Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Carr found cited her for arriving late in court.

After arriving, Funches Wade told the court “Dwyane Wade is offering to pay only some of what he owes if I sign an agreement never to discuss what happened in our marriage or with our children.” She later told the media, “I finally told Judge Carr I wanted to end the case and keep my freedom and my voice. I told him I didn’t want anything from Dwyane. The judge demanded the trial continue. I couldn’t believe it.”

And yet, Funches-Wade took to the streets last weekend, carrying placards reading: “NBA Miami Heat Star Mother Of His Children On The Streets.” Court records show Wade still pays at least $25,000 in monthly alimony and doled a $1 million lump sum payment to his ex at the time of 2007 their divorce.

Since that time, Funches-Wade has sued her ex for increased alimony on several different occasions, including earlier this year when she sought to subpoena Heat president of basketball operations Pat Riley during the middle of the team’s back-to-back NBA title winning run. 

Funches-Wade also recently sued her ex for $1 million, charging he reneged on money owed to her from several endorsement deals and other income. The suit was filed this month also alleging the NBA star “engaged in a conspiracy to deprive her of the money,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

Funches-Wade also named her former husband’s attorney, his financial advisor, and companies with which she believes he has endorsement deals for allegedly refusing to uphold an agreement that required the money to be placed in a joint bank account.

The suit also alleges the two had a contract that required all of Wade’s endorsement and marketing income plus half of his July 2006 NBA contract earnings be direct deposited into a “mutual account. Instead, Funches-alleges Wade and his supporters made an “end run” around the agreement by deciding “when and how much of those funds should be deposited into the mutually agreed account.

Dwyane Wade was granted sole custody of the couple’s two young sons at the time of their divorce.

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