PHILADELPHIA — Two months after Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm sued his parents for alleged financial mismanagement, the two legal teams — his and that of his parents, Daniel and Lisa Bohm — met for the first hearing in the case.Both parties used Thursday’s injunction hearing at City Hall as an opportunity to further their arguments: Bohm’s being that the case belongs in Pennsylvania and that the court should grant injunctive relief; Daniel and Lisa’s being that the case belongs in arbitration in Florida.Judge Michael Erdos ordered that arbitration continue to be stayed in Florida while discovery proceeds in Pennsylvania. He said both parties are allowed discovery regarding jurisdiction and on whether limited liability companies (LLCs) discussed in the case were organized via fraud in the inducement or the execution. The legal teams will have the next two-plus months to collect evidence and issue subpoenas.Bohm filed a $3 million suit against his parents on March 25, alleging they have improperly managed his finances since taking charge of them early in his professional career. Many of Bohm’s allegations centered on LLCs his parents created to run his affairs. The suit alleged that, while some of the money in accounts attached to the LLCs was used to pay his expenses, Daniel and Lisa took “sizeable amounts” for personal use and communicated little about the state of his finances. Bohm’s parents also misrepresented their stakes in the LLCs, the filing alleged.It is those LLCS that have led Daniel and Lisa’s legal team at Holland & Knight to argue the case belongs in Florida, as they were organized there. Their filings alleged inaccuracies in Bohm’s recounting of events, in part citing text messages between him and his parents about stock purchases and bills paid by the LLCs.Bohm’s legal team at Zarwin and Baum filed a request for a preliminary injunction in early April seeking the return of $528,618 that Daniel and Lisa transferred from a brokerage account to allegedly fund their legal expenses, as well as other relief. Daniel and Lisa alleged they took the money to pay bills the LLCs accrued, as they claimed Bohm withdrew substantial amounts of money from accounts attached to the LLCs. Bohm’s legal team, in response, filed documents that showed millions of dollars in the accounts as of early May.Erdos did not grant injunctive relief regarding the $528,618, saying he does not think the money — held in a trust associated with the couple’s Florida lawyers — is going anywhere.Much of Daniel and Lisa’s counsel’s argument on Thursday focused on what they felt was fraud in the inducement being represented as fraud in the execution by Bohm’s legal team. Voiding a contract like that of the Florida LLCs, Holland & Knight’s Siobhan Cole argued, requires fraud in the execution. But Bohm’s allegations of disagreement in what his parents told him about the operating agreements versus what was on paper constitute fraud in the execution, she argued. She said Pennsylvania law is specific as to this difference.It is a “vexing” distinction, Erdos said, “even for people who went to law school and even people sitting up here.”Bohm’s legal team took issue with Holland & Knight’s representation, citing a Supreme Court ruling stating that fraud in execution can be claimed when a party is mistaken in terms of agreement due to the author’s fraud.Bohm, 29, is making $10.2 million in his final year of salary arbitration. He has played better in recent weeks after enduring a brutal start to the season, but has managed only a .601 OPS overall. He will be a free agent after the 2026 season. He did not attend the hearing, as he is in Los Angeles with the Phillies. His parents also were not present.Two days before the hearing, Daniel and Lisa’s legal team filed a motion to halt discovery. Bohm’s legal team had filed notice of intent to issue nine subpoenas, including to the Boras Corporation — his former agency — and financial institutions including CapitalOne, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Truist Bank. During the hearing, Cole, the parents’ counsel, agreed to render the stay of discovery moot in order to keep the process moving quickly.The next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 3 in Philadelphia.May 28, 2026Connections: Sports EditionSpot the pattern. Connect the termsFind the hidden link between sports terms