ESPNLA: Lawyers dispute McCourt findings

LOS ANGELES—A lawyer representing Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said that his client scored a major victory Tuesday in his battle with his estranged wife over control of the team.

Two forensic scientists—one from each side—determined that a document at the crux of the battle over Frank and Jamie McCourt’s estimated billion-dollar fortune has not been tampered with, according to Stephen Susman, Frank McCourt’s chief legal counsel.

However, lawyers for Jamie McCourt say that the findings Tuesday support their client.

The document in question is a postnuptial marital property agreement that put the couple’s homes in her name. It was signed on March 31, 2004—the day before the McCourts moved from Boston to Los Angeles. The agreement between the two sides ends there.

Frank McCourt maintains the seven-page document—with two attached schedules on the back dividing their assets—gave him control of the Dodgers. Jamie denies ever signing away the team in a profile on the couple and their divorce in the next issue of ESPN The Magazine.