LeAnn Rimes

===Family challenges and lawsuits===
From the beginning of Rimes' career, father Wilbur Rimes managed his daughter and served as producer on her records. In May 2000, Rimes and her mother sued Wilbur, alleging that he took more than seven million dollars of her income over the course of five years.<ref name="Women"/> The lawsuit claimed that money was being taken away from Rimes personally as well as from a management company that was founded back in 1995.<ref name="AP">{{cite news |title=LeAnn Rimes Sues Father, Ex-Manager |url=https://apnews.com/article/d212fe49e15ef431915bbca7b31ff5df |access-date=December 22, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The suit also included her former manager, Lyle Walker, who assisted her father in management duties. The suit was filed in a district court in [[Dallas, Texas]]. Rimes also alleged that both men made unreasonable fees and took advantage of Rimes's label (Curb Records).{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} Rimes sought unspecified damages because her attorney was not sure of how much money had been lost in the preceding five years. In May 2001, she was informed by a Nashville court that she could not break her contract with Curb Records. Amidst the reaction, she visibly mouthed the words, "I hate you" to her father.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Edward |title=Rimes' Stepmom Releases Tapes to Tennessean |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1443651/rimes-stepmom-releases-tapes-to-tennessean/ |access-date=December 22, 2021 |work=[[Country Music Television]] |date=May 13, 2001}}</ref><ref name="Women"/> When Rimes was 18, she filed a lawsuit against Curb Records on her own, successfully petitioning a court to remove her position as a "minority" on the recording contract. As a result, this change made the contract binding.<ref name="Women"/>

In 2002, Rimes's lawsuit with her father was "settled on undisclosed terms."<ref name="people" /> "It is difficult to express just how happy I am that all of the legal troubles between my daughter and I are over," Rimes's father commented.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rimes, Father Resolve Differences |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/rimes-father-resolve-differences-76696/ |access-date=December 22, 2021 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=February 22, 2002}}</ref> Rimes reconciled with her father for her wedding.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = SomethingBlue |author = GarySusman |url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,213116,00.html |magazine = Entertainment Weekly |date = February 26, 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080528220013/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C213116%2C00.html |archive-date = May 28, 2008 }}</ref> During her wedding ceremony to Dean Sheremet, Wilbur Rimes walked his daughter down the aisle. "I've never hated my dad. I just wanted a dad. I guess I just really disliked where he was in my life. I just wanted him to be my father," she told ABC News.<ref>{{cite news |title=LeAnn Rimes Reconciles With Dad After Bitter Feud |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainment/story?id=715127&page=1 |access-date=December 22, 2021 |work=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] |date=January 6, 2006}}</ref>