Luka Doncic’s summer in Slovenia has taken another legal turn. Anamaria Goltes, the Los Angeles Lakers star’s former fiancee and the mother of his two daughters, has filed a fresh claim in her home country seeking a settlement that TMZ Sports reported Thursday totals $50 million, along with a reduction in Doncic’s time with the couple’s children.
The report, attributed to sources with direct knowledge of the situation, has not been independently confirmed, and neither side had publicly commented on the new claim as of publication. But it marks a sharp escalation in a dispute that has shadowed Doncic since the spring — and it arrives in the same jurisdiction the 27-year-old guard argued months ago was the proper venue for the fight.
What Goltes is seeking, according to TMZ
The specifics matter here, because the $50 million figure comes with a distinction TMZ’s own reporting draws. Per the outlet’s sources, Goltes is asking for $40 million for herself, and TMZ wrote that it assumes the remaining $10 million of the reported total relates to the couple’s two daughters, two-year-old Gabriela and infant Olivia.
The financial ask is only half of the claim. TMZ also reported that Goltes is seeking to scale back Doncic’s parenting arrangement, which currently gives him the girls at least two days a week, down to a single day.
For a player who has spent his entire offseason in Slovenia to be near his daughters, that request may carry more weight than any dollar figure.
A shift from Monday’s filing in Los Angeles
What makes Thursday’s report striking is how it follows the week’s earlier development. Just days ago, Goltes filed documents in Los Angeles asking to withdraw the child support petition she had brought in California, according to earlier reporting.
In that filing, she described wanting to resolve the matter in the best interests of the children.
“I am 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,” she wrote.
The California case had been contested ground since the spring. Doncic pushed back on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the state was the wrong forum because his daughters live in Slovenia, where he said he had already initiated proceedings addressing both custody and support.
Viewed through that lens, the new claim landing in a Slovenian court is less a surprise venue than the one Doncic himself pointed to — though the reported terms attached to it are another matter entirely.
How the dispute reached this point
Doncic and Goltes were together for roughly a decade, and their engagement lasted nearly three years before ending earlier this year. Gabriela arrived in November 2023, and Olivia followed in December, with Doncic traveling to Slovenia for the birth and missing games against Toronto and Boston in early December.
The dispute became public in March, when Goltes filed her California petition seeking child support and attorney fees. Doncic told ESPN at the time that he had “no idea” the petition had been filed, and he addressed the separation directly in a statement, explaining that his inability to have his daughters with him in the United States during the season drove the decision to end 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,” Doncic 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.”
By that point, Doncic had already filed an injunction with a Slovenian court seeking immediate contact with his daughters. One daughter had spent three months with him in the United States in 2025; the other had never been to California.
Where basketball fits into Doncic’s summer
The custody fight has not stayed neatly separated from Doncic’s basketball life. In May, shortly after the Lakers were eliminated by Oklahoma City, Doncic announced on Instagram that he would sit out Slovenia’s World Cup qualifiers — walking away from a national team he has represented since his teens — to spend the summer close to his girls while pursuing joint custody.
The Lakers' Luka Dončić announced tonight via Instagram that he will not play for Slovenia's national team this summer in FIBA World Cup qualifying to spend as much offseason time as possible with his two daughters as he continues to try to secure joint custody. pic.twitter.com/0D9DzKKJRM
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) May 12, 2026
“My daughters and my responsibilities as a father are my priority,” Doncic wrote.
He has spent the offseason in Slovenia since, and the basketball world is coming to him. Doncic is hosting the entire Lakers roster for a four-day minicamp in Slovenia this month, with workouts, golf and team bonding in Ljubljana on the agenda.
The stakes for the franchise are obvious. Doncic, who came to the Lakers from Dallas in the February 2025 trade built around Anthony Davis, averaged 33.5 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds per game last season before a hamstring strain ended his year in early April.
He is the organization’s present and future, and this is the first offseason the franchise has built entirely around him.
What comes next
There is no public timeline for the Slovenian proceedings, and the reported settlement demand is exactly that — a demand, the opening position in a negotiation that both sides indicated as recently as this week they hoped to resolve by agreement.
Nothing in the reporting suggests the dispute will touch Doncic’s availability for the minicamp or the season ahead, and Lakers Daily will update this story if either side comments or new filings surface.
For now, the picture is this: a reported $50 million ask, a custody arrangement in dispute and a superstar spending his summer in Ljubljana for reasons that have nothing to do with basketball — even as his team prepares to join him there.
