Brad Pitt achieves joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie
The actress will appeal the judge's provisional ruling and continues to insist on an alleged history of domestic violence
Brad Pitt has won over Angelina Jolie by getting joint custody of the children he has had with the actress after a long legal battle that has dragged on since her divorce was announced in September 2016 after two years of marriage. and twelve of relationship. The actor has been fighting in court for five years to have the same rights as his ex-wife when it comes to their six children.
According to sources cited by Page Six, it is for the moment a provisional resolution, since Angelina Jolie plans to continue with her legal battle. "Brad was just trying to get more time with his children and it has become clear that Angelina has done everything possible to prevent it," says this publication.
The legal battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for joint custody and support of their six children began in October 2020 in the Los Angeles court. Despite her obvious personal differences, Pitt came to the conscious process that the actress was looking for the best for her children, but also that they need "her love and her presence." Although they both tried to avoid going to trial, in the end Brad went to court so he could see them more often. In this long process, Judge John W. Ouderkirk heard testimonies from witnesses, social service professionals who interviewed the minors, therapists, experts, and others close to the family. Angelina, however, argues that the judge prevented her own children from testifying and has been denied the right to a fair trial. Last year, the actress's lawyers requested that Judge Ouderkirk be removed from this process for having business in common with Brad's lawyer. The request was denied and the magistrate continued to lead this process.
The idyllic image of the couple who became known by a single name, Brangelina, fell apart when they filed for divorce and rumors began to circulate pointing to the actor for his alleged aggressive behavior and his alcoholism. Recently, at the end of her divorce proceedings, the American actress sued him for child abuse and gender violence. Brad Pitt assured that there were a series of statements about him that had not been proven or corroborated, although he did acknowledge in an interview with The New York Times that his addiction to alcohol had a lot to do with his separation and assured that he had attended therapy during more than a year.
Pitt's relatives assured that he has assumed responsibility for him and that the marriage was "very passionate and toxic at times", but that they also had very good times so the actor would be dejected by the turn of judicial events. Both his ex-wife and all his children are willing to testify against him, just as the older one has already done. It is precisely his son Maddox who has decided to speak out in the process of separation from his parents regarding the custody of his minor siblings. Maddox, who is now 19 years old, declared as an adult and it seems that he did not leave his father in a very good place. In fact, he intends to remove his paternal last name and adopt his mother's. Already in his day, as a result of the first news about the actor's aggressiveness, an investigation was opened by the children's services and the FBI to clarify some alleged events that occurred on a private plane in which Pitt would have attacked Maddox. An investigation that was closed without consequences due to lack of evidence.
