Brad Pitt is asking the California Supreme Court to reconsider a decision in his custody case with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
According to ET, Pitt is taking action to challenge a July appeals court ruling that removed the couple’s private judge from their custody case. The decision came after Pitt was granted joint custody of their five minor children – Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne – in May.
Jolie had already asked an appeals court to remove Ouderkirk from the case at the time of her decision. The Maleficent actor apparently would have no problem sharing custody, but was upset. Ouderkirk, who previously married the couple and then became involved in the custody case in 2016, did not allow their children to testify in court.
In July, ET reported that the appeals court sided with Jolie. The ruling stemmed from what was deemed an “ethical violation” because Ouderkirk did not disclose the depth of his professional relationship with Pitt’s legal team. In doing so, the court overturned or overturned its previous decisions.
Pitt’s petition to the California Supreme Court challenges the appeals court’s decision. Documents filed by his legal team say the ruling “effectively upended the system of temporary judgments constitutionally permitted in California.”
His lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. opened in a statement shared with ET. “We are asking for a reconsideration in the California Supreme Court because the provisional judge, who had been repeatedly appointed and renewed by both parties, was improperly disqualified after rendering a detailed and factual detention decision, as a result of ‘a long legal process with several witnesses and experts, “he said.
Boustrous added that the ruling “will cause irreparable harm both to the children and families involved in this case, as well as to other families in other cases, by unnecessarily prolonging the resolution of these disputes in a judicial system. already overloaded “.
Robert A. Olson, Jolie’s attorney, released a statement reinforcing the appeals court ruling and questioning Pitt’s team for “hanging on to this private judge who was biased and refused the evidence required by law “. He noted that the Court of Appeal “unanimously refused to tolerate the ethical violations of the private judge who had heard the custody cases, and correctly quashed the orders of this judge”.
Jolie cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce in 2016. The decision came two years after her marriage to Pitt in 2014.
