His cheating played out in the tabloids, endorsement deals falling through, Tiger Woods was headed into divorce court with his reputation in tatters.
The man Woods turned to lives in our community, yet you've probably never heard of him. And that's just the way Tom Sasser wants it.
One of the reasons he gets those high-profile divorces is the exact reason you had to call me to learn about him, said fellow lawyer John Schutz. He won't give the press a quote; he doesn't talk about his clients, and he doesn't talk about his cases.
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Sasser would not comment for this story other than to confirm what is already in the public record: that he represented Woods in his divorce and a Manatee County paternity suit that was dismissed.
Sasser represented NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon in his acrimonious 2003 divorce from wife Brooke that became a battle over Gordon's net worth. The dissolution of their seven-year marriage was settled before the case went to trial.
He also represented Palm Beach millionaire Fred Keller in the divorce from his fifth wife, Rosemarie. Keller murdered Rosemarie days after a judge awarded her half her husband's $60 million plus $8, 659 a month in child support, despite a prenuptial agreement.
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But his colleagues say that he searches for common ground first in divorce proceedings, and if the two sides can't reach an agreement, he's up for the fight.
Sasser's approach to law is much like former President Reagan's Star Wars strategy of mutually assured destruction. The lawyer prepares himself to go to war, all the while betting that the weapons he accumulates will serve as a deterrent.
He's not one of the Rambo lawyers. They just fight and kill everything in their path good, bad and indifferent, said family law attorney Victoria Calebrese of Palm Beach Gardens.
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If Tom or myself find ourselves in a situation when the other side is throwing punches, we don't sit with both hands behind our back, he said.
We come out of the gate, reaching our arms out and trying to be problem-solvers, but if you can't be a problem-solver, you better watch out because what you thought was soft will hit with a very hard punch.
Woods and his wife, Elin, reached a financial and custody agreement before setting foot last week in the Bay County courtroom for their quickie divorce. The settlement was not filed among the court documents.
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Sasser is the son of divorce lawyer Don Sasser, his law partner. He has been married since 1994 to Judge Meenu Sasser. She is a University of Pennsylvania-educated lawyer, known as the rocket for her role as a Palm Beach County Circuit Court foreclosure judge cutting through a backlog of cases.
After graduating from St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Tom Sasser studied English and history at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He earned his law degree at the University of Florida.
He is a member of the American and International Academies of Matrimonial Lawyers and has built a reputation for working cases with international custody disputes and offshore trusts that need untangling.
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Sasser helped write and lobby for two recent Florida laws that changed the way alimony and child support are awarded. One change defined a short-, mid- or long-term marriage to provide more flexibility in alimony awards rather than a simple temporary or permanent award.
Magistrate Diane Kirigin, who has worked with Sasser through the Florida Bar Family Law Section, said representing a client in a divorce is a very intimate thing.
You look in the newspaper and magazines and you see other attorneys give quotes about their representation of people, she said. If I were a celebrity, I would want to go to someone who did not trade on my celebrity.
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