In July 2023, two Slovenians got engaged near Bled Castle in a storybook moment that looked like it belonged in a fairy tale. Less than three years later, Luka Doncic and Anamaria Goltes’ relationship has turned into one of the messiest, most public legal battles in the NBA.

According to a new report from TMZ Sports, Doncic’s ex-fiancée Goltes has escalated her fight with the Lakers star. She filed a fresh claim in Slovenia, this time seeking $50 million total, $40 million for herself and, per TMZ, roughly $10 million for their two daughters.

TMZ noted that while Doncic “has said he’d do anything for his kids,” making the $10 million figure plausible, “the $40 mil is a whole other story.” The outlet also reported that Goltes is seeking to reduce Doncic’s custody time from its current arrangement of two days a week down to just one.

Luka Doncic and Goltes, both from Slovenia, share two daughters: Gabriela and Olivia. Their issues began when Goltes relocated back to Slovenia with Gabriela while Doncic remained in the U.S. for his NBA career.

Doncic confirmed to ESPN that he had ended the engagement. “I love my daughters more than anything, and I’ve been doing everything I can for them to be with me in the U.S. during the season, but that hasn’t been possible, so I recently made the tough decision to end my engagement,” he said in a statement.

“Everything I do is for my daughters’ happiness, and I will always fight to be with them and give them the best life I can.” The same day, TMZ reported that Goltes filed a petition in a Los Angeles County court seeking child support and attorney’s fees.

The Jurisdiction Fight

Doncic’s legal team, led by prominent family law attorney Laura Wasser, pushed back hard on the California filing. She argued that the state had no real claim to the case and that both daughters had been living in Slovenia, not California, and Doncic had already opened custody proceedings there in February 2026, weeks before Goltes filed in Los Angeles.

Court records showed that neither daughter had spent meaningful time in the state; one had lived there only briefly, and the other never at all.

Just days before a scheduled hearing on Doncic’s motion to dismiss, Goltes filed a Request for Dismissal. She asked the California court to drop her child support petition without prejudice. In her filing, she wrote that she was “withdrawing my Petition for Child Support with the specific intention of resolving this matter amicably and by a mutual agreement which is in the best interests of our children.”

With the case now in Slovenian courts, the jurisdiction Doncic’s own legal team fought to establish, the dispute shows no signs of the “amicable” resolution Goltes referenced just days ago. Instead, it’s gotten to a nine-figure demand and a custody fight that could reshape how much time the Lakers star gets to spend with his daughters going forward.