Ignorant Sheree Whitfield Buys Herself A New Porsche Before Asking For More Child Support

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It's just too funny watching this clip because while it shows how smart Phaedra Parks actually is, it really displays Sheree's naivete and utter stupidity when it comes to the real world. Appearance does matter in court, judges speak on it and lash out at people about it all the time. Yet, the Angry Black Woman that is Sheree Whitfield is just too stuck in her ignorant ways to see how buying a new Porsche along with $10,000 handbags while wearing thousand dollar suits just comes off as excessive and totally unnecessary, especially when you're claiming to need more in child support. Whatever one might think of Phaedra, she is a well-known lawyer with plenty of experience in the justice system--in other words, when somebody with way more experience in a certain field gives you free advice, it's best to just sit down, shut up and listen:

A mere 48 hours after the last very special episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” featuring Kim Zolciak’s baby delivery, Bravo is carting out yet another new episode on a Tuesday night.


For the first time this season, Sheree Whitfield receives the primary story line this week thanks to a court case with her ex-husband Bob Whitfield.


The way the show is editing it, Bob appears to be doing everything he can to avoid paying child support for their kids. Or perhaps he really can’t. It’s hard to tell. He served Sheree with papers saying he’d like to reduce his child support because his income is greatly reduced.


The two end up going to Fulton County civil court. Phaedra Parks is representing Sheree. Phaedra is aware that Sheree didn’t fully pay two previous divorce attorneys, who both sued her to the tune of $180,000 plus combined. One of the firms even seized her Aston Martin last year to get some of the monies back. Sheree’s rationale for not paying was that she didn’t feel they did a good job.


“It makes me a little leery about representing her,” Phaedra says, with good reason. “I don’t work for free.”


Her staff had to chase Sheree down to get Phaedra’s $5,000 retainer from her. Phaedra is annoyed (”We’re not a courier service. We’re not a pick-up deli!”) but moves forward.


She gives Sheree the option of sending Bob to jail for not paying child support but Sheree is resistant to taking such an extreme measure.


“I believe Sheree is afraid of the court system because her divorce was very tumultuous,” Phaedra says. “She incurred a lot of debt. She did not get the things she thought she should have gotten.”


She tells Sheree to be brave. “You’ve got to be ready to fight,” she says.


Yet Sheree has a blind spot about her own spending habits. She shows off a Porsche she had just gotten (probably leased though I can’t imagine her credit is all that stellar). She carries around $10,000 handbags. Phaedra recommends she dresses down for the court date.


“What does that have to do with anything?” Sheree asks. “How I look – I don’t feel that should make a difference over what’s right and what’s wrong.”


“It’s perception,” Phaedra says.


The morning of the court date, Sheree emotionally breaks down. Phaedra has to calm her nerves by phone, telling her everything will be alright and she’ll do all the talking.


Then the big surprise: Bob arrives in court by himself, no lawyer (to show how broke he is, Phaedra says.) He files a petition for contempt against Sheree, claiming she kept furniture that was his since the divorce. It’s a pretty clear attempt at stalling. “I did go to Stanford,” Bob said to Phaedra with a smirk. Phaedra acts nonplussed but it does work in delaying the case over Bob’s child-support payments. Sheree is annoyed with Phaedra.


“She was outsmarted by an ex football player who was representing himself,” Sheree snipes.


Sheree and Phaedra meet with Kandi Burruss at Wahoo Grill, a restaurant in Decatur. Kandi relates her own woes concerning her daughter and the daddy in court and how tough it was. She cries. Sheree cries. Phaedra does not. This story will obviously continue, though it’s unclear what more we’ll see on that front.

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