Frank McCourt Testifies About Postnuptial

Testifying in a trial to determine if he is the sole  owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Frank McCourt said Wednesday he and his now-estranged wife discussed their separate assets in 2004. McCourt said that was before they signed a  marital property agreement that is now at the heart of the dispute in their  divorce case.

"We had discussions at home, in the car, in bed. We had discussions in  the office,'' he said under questioning by David Boies, one of Jamie McCourt's attorneys.

However, Frank McCourt said he did not talk with his wife about the  disparity in their separate assets and whether that was fair to her. At the  time, his assets were estimated at more than $380 million and he said he  believes hers were about $75 million, most of it generated from the family  homes.

McCourt, 57, said he and his wife were not contemplating divorce at the  time. However, he said their lawyer in 2004, Lawrence Silverstein, explained to  them how their separate property would be treated under both Massachusetts law,  where they lived at the time, and in California.

McCourt also said he did not thoroughly examine an additional set of  marital property agreement copies he signed in California in April 2004, which his lawyers say were meant to be identical to those the couple signed in Massachusetts the month before.

Unlike the Massachusetts copies, the California copies signed only by  Frank McCourt stated he was excluding the Dodgers as his separate property. His  attorneys said the wording was a mistake.

"I signed it without reviewing it," Frank McCourt said.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon is presiding over the  non-jury trial to determine whether Frank McCourt is correct when he claims he  is the sole owner of the Dodgers, or if Jamie McCourt's assertion that she has  a stake in the team is valid.

Frank McCourt's attorneys maintain that as a trained lawyer, Jamie  McCourt knew an agreement she signed with her estranged husband in 2004  stripped her of any ownership interest in the team.

The couple, who married in November 1979 and have four grown sons,  separated on July 6, 2009.