Carina Maggi Martins claims she was ‘cheated’ in the division of property between her, five brothers and stepmother
Carina Maggi Martins, one of André Antônio’s daughters May — founder of a soybean empire in Brazil — has reopened a legal dispute by questioning the division of assets made between his six children and his widow 20 years ago, after the patriarch’s death. She claims that she was tricked by her relatives into signing a contract which removed her from being the “heiress” of her estate.
The case was revealed by journalist Felipe Frazão, of the newspaper State of Sao Paulo. Following an extramarital affair, Carina received, in 2002, approximately R$ 1.9 million (the equivalent of R$ 10.6 million in current values. The amount received in the distribution was the same for the six children by André Antonio.
The agreement signed in 2002 divided André’s estate between his six children and his widow. At the time, the value was established at R $ 23.9 million. However, at the time, Carina accepted that she was the only one to transfer the rights of her heir and to be excluded from this condition, which would have saved her from future divisions of the other assets of the tycoon.
Years later, Carina began to question the deal made after news of the much greater wealth of the widow and her siblings on her father’s side was published. In 2022, widow Lúcia Maggi was named the richest woman in Brazil by Forbes magazine.
The regret, however, came late: he even asked for the nullity of the agreement in 2007, but the deadline for contesting it had already expired. In 2015, the Superior Court of Justice declared the real estate process legal and ended the possibility of a new appeal.
“Hidden Heritage”
For Carina, the brothers and the widow may have moved to protect her father’s real estate. In her report, her defense argues that most of the assets were in the name of companies and, for this reason, she did not enter the first division, the only one in which Carina participated. The goal of the defense is to break the secret of 12 companies and locate resources abroad, in the period between 1995 and 2006.
On the other hand, the lawyers of the widow Lúcia Maggi, and of the children Blairo, Marli, Maria de Fátima, Vera Lúcia and Rosangela Maggi, argue that the agreement reached two decades ago should not be discussed again. They point out that Carina agreed to the terms and missed the deadline to question him.
The daughter, however, tried once again to reopen the dispute. In March, Carina filed a lawsuit for the advance production of evidence, but Judge Vandymara GR Paiva Zanolo, of the 4th Civil Court of Cuiabá, rejected and canceled the trial. The lawyers have wanted at least a conciliation hearing between the parties and promise to activate higher courts.
The judge affirmed that Carina wanted to re-discuss a sentence that had already become final and that the action could favor a “devasse” in the economic and patrimonial life of the family. “Now, if the appellant has already discussed the same issues in a previous judgment, definitive and unappealable, the necessity, usefulness and opportunity of the present appeal for the early production of evidence has not been demonstrated”, assessed the magistrate .
“Moreover, given the nature of the requested documents, which are confidential, the plaintiff intends to carry out a genuine inspection and investigation into the business activity of the defendants, all on the grounds that she was deceived by the other heirs about her deceased’s real estate parent, in the agreement freely entered into between the parties, older and more capable, since the plaintiff was already emancipated at the time of the agreement.
Source: Terra
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