August 07, (THEWILL) – Samantha Spector, Kanye West’s fifth divorce attorney, has officially withdrawn from his case, several months after she filed to be removed on account of an irreconcilable breakdown with the rapper.
According to TMZ, she was relieved as his counsel on Friday.
Kanye and his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, had a trial-setting conference on Friday, and Spector was set to officially withdraw on a date next week, but the judge ended up approving her withdrawal that same day.
According to TMZ, the judge informed the court that Kanye needed to take action and submit his financial declarations to settle lingering issues or else the case would head to trial in December.
“If Kanye ghosts everyone, ‘then in all probability when the case comes before the judge in December, Kim will get whatever she wants”, TMZ reveals.
Earlier in May, when it was reported that Spector filed her paperwork to withdraw from the case. It was later reported that an attorney from Pennsylvania, who was not a divorce lawyer, would represent Kanye in his split from Kim in the meantime.
This will make the fifth attorney that would be representing the singer in his divorce proceeding.