Maria Shriver Hires Top Divorce Lawyer

By Christo Varghese Posted May 19th 2011 05:30AM

It looks like Maria Shriver is gearing up and taking steps to protect herself and her children from a potentially long and costly divorce battle with her separated husband Arnold Schwarzenegger.

PEOPLE is reporting that Shriver has hired top celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser to represent her.

Wasser is a Los Angeles-based family lawyer whose previous clients include Angelina Jolie, Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder and Britney Spears.

A source is quoted saying, "Maria hasn't decided yet if she wants to end her marriage."

It was also revealed that Wasser was hired before the news of Arnold Schwarzenegger's affair and child with the family's longtime housekeeper went public.

The housekeeper has reportedly been identified as Mildred Patricia "Patty" Baena. She also worked as an assistant to Schwarzenegger and Shriver for 20 years before resigning in January.

The exact identity of the boy still remains under wraps, but new details have emerged based on discovery of the boy's the birth certificate.

In the certificate, which blacks out the boy's first and middle name, it is revealed that he was born on October 2, 1997 just five days after Schwarzenegger and Shriver welcomed their fourth child, Christopher Sargent Shriver Schwarzenegger, to the family.

That means his mistress and his wife were both pregnant at the exact same time with his children.

The boy, who is now 13, was born in Burbank, Calif., to Baena, who lists her last name as "Pena" in the certificate. She also named the father as Rogelio D.J. Baena, who was her husband at the time. Patty's place of birth is Guatemala, while her ex-husband was born in Colombia.

Schwarzenegger and Shriver shocked the public when they announced earlier this month that they were separating after 25 years of marriage.

On May 16, Schwarzenegger released a statement admitting to his wrongdoing and apologizing to his family.

Shriver has since broken her silence, calling it a "painful and heartbreaking time" and asking for privacy.

Tags: arnold schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver

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Thursday 19 May

By brett

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shes freaking horrible looking,she definetly isnt going to find any better..and i hardly belive she didnt know something of the affair or child tell now....she and arnold probably had some sort of agreement to not say anything tell he gets out of office..and the kid looks white not mexican like last name would suggest....not sayingwhat arnold did was right he is a dog ,but she isnt the best looking woman around maybe a 3 mexican was a 2

By Jen

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What does 'looks' have to do with anything? The 'other' woman is, in fact, almost always not nearly as attractive as the wife and old Arnold didn't exactly get in the line handing out good looks either!!! What a mess.

By paintppa1

looks like the terminator will be "bach"...whether he wants to be or not...this gal will take him to the cleaner's.

By k

Must have felt like a real kick in the stomach. All those years and, "Surprise, I'm even worse than you thought I could be." What a tragedy.

By popeye

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YAWN....SNORE.....BLUB A BLUB A BLUBA...sleepdome...now asleep...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

dreaming...oh like the rich from the banker's,I.M.F.,Washington and celebrities really care about the peasants they lord over...
sleeping.....oh no ...some illegal just stole my car and drove off...I MUST BE DREAMING.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By dallas

what a society we are.. the press is awful..they bring much pain to people.. we read this'' poo''..thats why they do it.. the demand is there..every day.. every news media.. shouts personal pain..hurtful to so many..it reminds me of the old movies.. roman arenas.. people getting thrown to the lions..we americans critize the taliban for stoning women until they die.. is this any different.. i don't this so..only this time its stoning and entire family..shame on us..

By Gregory

Article states she's not certain if she wants to end her marriage, and that the Attorney was hired "before" she knew of Arnold's affair and the child? If she hired the Attorney before she knew, you'd sure as heck think she'd want the divorce now!

By s

the article says that the attorney was hired before the news went public not before Ms. Shriver knew of it. i would guess her husband told her before it went public

By wayne

Ugg, that Maria Shriver looks mean-as-a-witch and ugly as one too...lol. She was born to marry for money and will scratch her way too most of Arnolds. I'm so happy Shriver is off tv...she scared me back then!

By nonyabusiness

My god is she HORRIBLE looking, Maria looks like a walking eating disorder... for Christ sakes EAT A BURGER!!

By Jud

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What's new this is a typical hollywood story that is getting quite old. I would think more of them if that had thought about the children they brought into this world instead of themselfs.

By Looch

Well most of the Kennedy women are not too attractive. Some
are actually UGLY,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. As for Arnold, he is just a doggggg........

By cac006006

The real victim in this whole mess is the other child. I wonder if he is just finding out who his real father is. And while, I agree, that Maria is definitely scary skeletal looking, the other woman is nothing to look at so Arnie didn't cheat for looks. It is really sad this went on while Maria was also pregnant. I have feeling that neither Maria or her children will want anything to do with the boy who is the innocent in all this. And I think it is time for this story not to be a headliner on the news every day.

By qtztutz

Maria was born into one of the pre-eminent political/public service families in this country. Does anyone really think Arnold was a step up for her? I suspect she's acting to protect HER trust money and make sure Arnold doesn't financially abandon their children--as he's proven that he's already capable of doing by fathering extra-marital children.

By Mal

She is a little scary looking...

By Victoriana

What does looks have to do with this? It's just shallow and superficial to bring physical appearance into this. I feel sorry for the little boy. He didn't ask for any of this. At least his friends probably don't know who his father is unless they've been watching old movies.

By tony

i really doubt either of them will starve.

By Jocko

All this info,,geez. I never knew Stevie Wonder was ever married?

By bobbytox

I cant really blame ahhnold.....Maria would stop a clock, has always even in her younger days hard to look at.....anything was an improvement over her.

By RUSSELL

Somebody please take Maria to KFC and fill her full of mashed potatoes and gravy and chicken legs. This woman (skeleton)is so hard to look at, - she hurts my eyes.

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