In response to charges that he swindled more than $7 million from his daughter LeAnn Rimes, Wilbur Rimes has countersued her management company, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Wilbur Rimes' lawsuit against LeAnn Rimes Entertainment Inc. claims he is due a 3 percent producer's fee as spelled out in a 1999 agreement he made with his ex-wife and LeAnn Rimes' mother, Belinda Rimes.

"The gist of the [counter] claim is, under the agreement ... Wilbur would continue to receive a producer fee on the recordings that he produced," Brad Rhorer, an attorney for Wilbur Rimes, told the Morning News.

In May, LeAnn Rimes and her mother sued Wilbur Rimes and the singer's other former co-manager, Lyle Walker, accusing them of stealing more than $7 million from the singer's earnings.

She also has a lawsuit pending against Curb Records, seeking to void the recording contract that her parents signed with the label in her name when she was 12. Now 18, the singer said she wants control of her own career.

Two years after her parents divorced in 1997, they signed an agreement making Belinda Rimes custodian of stock in the management company. Wilbur Rimes claims the management company did not honor his producer's agreement, the lawsuit says.

J. Cary Gray, a lawyer for the singer and her mother, told the paper that Wilbur Rimes "is going to claim ... that under the agreements he made with himself as president of the company that he's entitled to more money."

The suit names only the management company as a defendant. "It's kind of hard to sue your daughter," the Morning News quoted Wilber Rimes as saying.