Tristan Thompson has reached a settlement in his ongoing paternity case with Maralee Nichols.
The parents of Theo, age one, have settled to terms that the NBA player, 31, will pay $9,500 a month in child support as he is currently not contracted to a team and is not earning income.
Last year, Thompson conceived a child with Nichols while in a relationship with reality star Khloe Kardashian, 38 – with whom he shares two children.
Settled case: Tristan Thompson, 31, has reached a settlement in his ongoing paternity case with his baby mother Maralee Nichols
Sources revealed to TMZ that Nichols was granted sole custody of their son, but they have not yet worked out a visitation schedule.
The former Chicago Bulls player also partially covered his baby mother’s legal fees during their settlement case and will now be officially named as the father on the birth certificate.
The insiders revealed the paternity settlement agreement will be filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday.
Paying his dues: The parents of 1-year-old Theo have settled to terms that the NBA player will pay $9,500 a month in child support and a portion of Nichols’ lawyer fees
Later, Khloe – who already shared True, four, with Thompson – revealed on season two of The Kardashians on Hulu that they were expecting a baby boy together through surrogacy at the time of the revelation of his ongoing infidelity.
The former couple had successfully conceived a son through IVF in November 2021 just weeks prior to the birth of Thompson and Nichols’ son.
In the months leading up to their baby’s birth, Thompson and Nichols were involved in a months-long legal paternal battle over if he was actually Theo’s biological father.
Multiple baby mothers: Last year, Thompson conceived a child with Nichols while in a relationship with reality star Khloe Kardashian , 38 – with whom he shares two children
When Nichols gave birth to Theo in December 2021, she sued Thompson for child support and claimed that he allegedly offered her $75,000 in exchange for her silence.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Thompson had filed an emergency petition and essentially a gag order to silence Nichols.
A June 2022 episode of The Kardashians showed the Good American founder discovering Thompson’s repeated infidelity when the lawsuit was made public in December 2021.
Confessional: Khloe – who already shared True, four, with Thompson – revealed on season two of The Kardashians on Hulu that they were expecting a baby boy together through surrogacy at the time his love child was born
Her little one: Khloe’s daughter True Thompson seen here at home
In an emotional confessional, Khloe said in the episode: ‘I find out what Tristan is doing with the rest of the world.’
‘A courtesy would be not doing it,’ she continued. ‘But fine, if you do it, you are not even going to give me a f***ing heads-up before the rest of the world? It is just an additional slap in my face.’
In January of this year, Thompson came clean after the paternity test identified him as Theo’s biological father and he took to social media to publicly apologize to Khloe.
Via surrogacy: Kardashian’s second child – whose name has not yet been revealed – with Thompson was born in August 2022
In an Instagram story, Thompson wrote: ‘Today, paternity test results reveal that I fathered a child with Maralee Nichols. I take full responsibility for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son.’
He addressed Khloe and continued, ‘You don’t deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you. You don’t deserve the way I have treated you over the years.
‘My actions certainly have not lined up with the way I view you. I have the utmost respect and love for you,’ he said.
Over the summer: They were not in a relationship and had not spoken since December of the previous year outside of co-parenting communications only
Kardashian’s second child – whose name has not yet been revealed – with Thompson was born in August 2022.
That same month, insiders revealed that although Thompson had paid some child support, he made ‘no attempt’ to meet his then-eight-month-old son with Nichols.
Two months earlier, a rep for Khloe confirmed that the pair were expecting but noted that they were not in a relationship and had not spoken since December of the previous year outside of co-parenting communications only.
Thompson also shares another child, his eldest son – Prince, 6 – with social media influencer Jordan Craig.
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