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Mildred Patricia Baena with his son

Mildred Patricia Baena with his son

Maria Shriver hires top divorce lawyer: report

Maria Shriver has hired a top divorce lawyer, but hasn't decided yet whether she wants to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to People magazine. It quotes sources close to Shriver as saying Laura Wasser, described as a "prominent Los Angeles family law attorney," is representing Shriver.

CBS News | Published: 05/19/2011 12:59

"Maria hasn't decided yet if she wants to end her marriage," People quotes one source as saying. Wasser was hired before word of Schwarzenegger's affair became public, People adds.

Meanwhile, the name of the mother of the former California governor's teenaged love child is now known -- and new details have emerged about Schwarzenegger's financial support for his 13-year-old son.

On "The Early Show," CBS News National Correspondent Ben Tracy reported a picture, believed to be taken in 1994, shows Schwarzenegger dancing at his home with Mildred Patricia Baena. She was his longtime housekeeper and the woman with whom he later fathered a child -- a secret they both kept for nearly 14 years.

Tracy says Schwarzenegger himself is now being hounded, as a birth certificate has surfaced showing the child, a boy, was born in October 1997 -- just a week after Shriver gave birth to their youngest son, Christopher. Baena got divorced less than a month later. Settlement papers reveal she claimed she and her husband had no children. Schwarzenegger has been supporting the teenager. He lives with his mother in a four bedroom home in Bakersfield, Calif.

Marty Steelman, a Bakersfield neighbor, told CBS News Schwarzenegger's son is "just a really, really nice kid ... the kid you want to have."

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