Former special counsel Nathan Wade has refused to pay for his estranged wife’s medical treatments and cut off financial support for his children’s studies after he resigned from the Georgia case against former President Donald Trump, a divorce filing by his wife Joycelyn Wade claims.
Joycelyn Wade asked the Cobb County Superior Court to hold her husband in contempt after she asserted he violated their previous divorce settlement, which was announced on January 30, by refusing to pay for her medical treatments.
She also alleges Nathan Wade cut off financial support for their shared children, whom he was supporting financially through post-secondary education and a fledgling soccer career in Spain.
According to the filing, Joycelyn Wade “urgently requires medical procedures, namely an endoscopy, colonoscopy, and ultrasound, due to severe physical symptoms” that left her unable to eat and quickly losing weight.
A March email conversation between Nathan Wade and Joycelyn Wade seems to suggest he expected his estranged wife to pay for medical treatments and then submit the bills to him to be reimbursed.
“I can not even schedule the procedures without the fees being paid,” wrote Joycelyn Wade in a March 18 email. She explained the total cost for her medical procedures was $4,400.
Nathan Wade replied on March 21, “I think the simplest thing to do is for you to just pay it and get your treatment done, I can reimburse you.”
Joycelyn Wade’s attorneys argue that she is unable to produce the $4,400 needed for the medical procedures and declare Nathan Wade “has failed and neglected to fulfill his obligation” under the January 30 settlement that seemed to signal the couple’s divorce was nearly complete.
That settlement was widely publicized as a victory for Willis and her prosecution team, but the new filing claims that just one day after Joycelyn Wade and Nathan Wade agreed to terms for their divorce, he “informed the parties’ daughter, an upperclassman in college with hopes of entering medical school in the near future, that he would discontinue payment of her rent and living expenses.”
Joycelyn Wade’s attorneys further allege her estranged husband instructed their daughter to “get the money from your mother.”
The former special counsel is accused of taking similar retaliatory action against the couple’s son.
“The parties’ son is currently in Europe, pursuing a career as a professional soccer player,” according to Joycelyn Wade’s legal filing.
Despite Nathan Wade “executing a verified affidavit” to the government of Spain in which he promises to financially support his son, the filing claims he later announced “he would no longer be providing for him either, directing the son to ‘get the money from your mother.'”
After Nathan Wade ended his financial support of their children, the court filing claims Joycelyn Wade continued to pay their daughter’s education and son’s life in Europe.
Nathan Wade resigned from the Fulton County criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump on March 15 after Judge Scott McAfee was asked to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis due to her previously undisclosed relationship with Wade.
After she appointed Nathan Wade to oversee the Trump case, the special counsel was paid more than $650,000 by Fulton County taxpayers. After court documents revealed he used his company credit card to spend thousands of dollars on luxurious vacations he shared with Willis, defendants argued she had a financial incentive to appoint him.
Defendants in the Trump case similarly located witnesses to testify that Nathan Wade and Willis began their relationship as early as 2019, more than two years earlier than the former romantic couple testified in court, which they claimed underscored Willis’ financial incentive to make the appointment.
Though Willis narrowly survived disqualification, multiple defendants have appealed his decision. One of the defense attorneys estimated the appeal process will take six months once the appeal is formally accepted by an appellate court.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Nathan Wade” by Wade & Campbell.
