Just because you have all the money in the world does not mean that you’re guaranteed your way during a California child custody battle. Consider, for instance, the notoriously acrimonious battle between ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney, and his ex-spouse, Heather Mills,...
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Celebrity Custody Battles in the Spotlight: Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin
In the annals of notorious celebrity divorces, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s rancorous split stands out as one of the most unseemly and unfortunate. For nearly a decade, the A-List actors waged a not-so-private domestic battle, which ended in a separation in 2000,...
Lessons from Famous Custody Battles: Usher vs. Tameka Foster
R&B icon, Usher, split up with Tameka Foster, his wife of less than two years, in June, 2009. The couple became entrenched in a bitter custody battle over their two children, 3-year-old, Naviyd, and 4-year-old, Usher V. In court, Tameka argued that Usher had used...
More Thoughts on the Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards/Brooke Mueller Child Custody Mess
Actor Charlie Sheen’s crazy tabloid antics have served as ongoing cannon fodder for tabloids and Hollywood gossip blogs. But Sheen’s complex custody battles with his ex-wives, Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, are no laughing matter. They’re sad and disturbing. In...
What, If Anything Can Be Learned from Tragic Child Custody Murder Case?
In a recent blog post, we reviewed a horrendous news story about a woman who allegedly took the lives of her 10-year-old and 13-year-old children, after she lost a custody battle with her ex husband due to what the judge called her “extreme parental alienation.”...
Awful Child Custody Battle Ends with Mother Allegedly Killing Her Two Children
A mother is in jail in Orange County for allegedly poisoning her two children to death, following a bitter custody battle. According to reports, 42-year-old Marilyn K. Edge of Scottsdale poisoned her two children at a Hampton Inn & Suites in Santa Ana, the day...
More about SB 115 – Proposed California Law Would Change Child Custody Arrangements for Sperm Donors
In the wake of Actor Jason Patric’s custody fight with his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Schreiber, State Senator, Jerry Hill, introduced a piece of legislation, SB 115, that would extend paternity rights to sperm donor fathers under certain circumstances. This bill has...
Could Actor Jason Patric’s Wild Hollywood Custody Battle Change California Law?
47-year-old actor, Jason Patric, is locked in a vicious, eccentric custody battle with his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Schreiber. What’s more, the battle over Patric’s paternity rights may be on the verge of changing Golden State law. Several years ago, when Patric and...
More on the Bode Miller Sara Mckenna Child Custody Battle
After a New York Family Court called Sara McKenna’s decision to move to New York while pregnant “reprehensible,” she took her case to an appeals judge, who laced into the lower court for violating McKenna’s rights, claiming “putative fathers have neither the right nor...
My ex-wife requested sole legal and physical custody of our children as well as child support. What is going to happen?
Just because she is asking for sole custody does not mean that the court will order it. It sounds like you have been an active father and involved in your children’s lives. Assuming no other facts, the court should order that your contact with your daughter continues...

