Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has accused her ex-husband Brad Pitt of trying to use his movie star status to gain special treatment in the courts. Angelina Jolie’s legal team filed the accusation in court papers on Monday in the Supreme Court of California, USA.
In their ongoing custody battle, Angelina Jolie has hit Brad Pitt with the latest allegations after he filed a petition to overturn the dismissal of the Judge overseeing their custody fight over the past five years.
John Ouderkirk, a private judge hired by both parties at the start of the case, had tentatively granted Pitt joint custody of the couple’s five minor children. Ouderkirk had also performed the couple’s 2014 wedding ceremony.
Jolie’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court to reject Brad Pitt’s effort to cast aside the court’s ruling of Ouderkirk’s dismissal.
“This sort of gamesmanship, a last-ditch effort by a celebrity litigant seeking special treatment, is not what this Court’s limited review resources are for. There is no issue meeting this Court’s rigorous standards for, or worthy of, review,” Jolie’s lawyers stated.
Pitt’s legal team responded by saying that Jolie has been “unnecessarily” prolonging the custody fight simply because a qualified judge she had long approved of wouldn’t rule in her favor.
“The court ruling will cause irreparable harm to both the children and families involved in this case and other families in other cases, by unnecessarily prolonging the resolution of these disputes in an already overburdened court system,” Pitt’s attorney said.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged in a legal custody fight over their children for 5 years. They are parents to six, but custody quarrel is over their five minor children including Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and 13-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne. Being an adult, their oldest son 20-year-old Maddox is not subject to the custody ruling.
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