Brad Pitt lost the chance to regain custody of his children

Five years after their divorce, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie They continue their tough legal battle. Now it became known that the actor lost the last legal round with his ex-wife. The custody of the five minor children of the former couple will remain in the hands of the actress.

Pitt, 57, obtained joint custody of the children in May and lost it in July. Now the California Supreme Court has decided not to reopen the case.

That decision granting Pitt more time with his children was overturned in July because the private judge handling the case, John Ouderkirk, was disqualified and set aside by three other judges, who decided that he had been “unethically wrong” by failing to disclose his “professional relationships with Pitt’s advisers,” according to the July ruling, calling into question his “ability to be impartial.”

In September, Pitt’s attorneys petitioned the court for a new custody review of the children and filed an appeal in a California high court. But the appeal has been denied.

Magazine People, with internal sources of the case, has made known this judicial news. Apparently wednesday Justice decided simply to deny, without giving further explanation, Pitt’s request to reopen the case.

The custody agreement now adheres to what was agreed in November 2018 and which gives the full custody of the minors: Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13, to their mother.

As explained by the actor’s legal spokesman for the publication, not granting that request is due to a “technical procedural issue.” “We will continue to do whatever is legally necessary based on the detailed findings of independent experts,” he said.

On the other hand, Jolie’s lawyers have applauded the decision. “Ms. Jolie is focused on her family and delighted that the well-being of children is not guided by unethical behavior,” her legal team told People. “We will not tolerate misconduct so that the interests of one of the parties are rewarded.”

The couple had hired Ourderkirk as a private judge in 2016. Although Pitt’s attorneys now allege that Jolie was aware of “Ouderkirk’s significant professional history of counseling with Pitt from the beginning,” her attorneys decided to wait several years to seek that disqualification. for an alleged lack of bias.

In addition, the “Maleficent” actress accused the magistrate of unfair trial and demanded that he listen to her six children, which he refused, becoming another reason why she tried to remove him from the case.

The process affects five of the six children of the couple. Maddox, who is now 20 years old, is out of the agreement as he is of legal age, something that will soon also happen with Pax.

In fact, the US media claimed in the middle of last year that Pitt had no relationship with his two older children. Maddox was at South Korean university in 2019 and 2020, but returned to the United States when the pandemic broke out, while Pax continues to live with Jolie and the rest of her siblings.

The battle for divorce and especially for child custody is long and expensive. Each of the actors has already spent more than a million dollars on legal matters. The custody fight seems like it will never come to an end.

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