Angelina Jolie’s court documents allege that three of her and Brad Pitt’s children wanted to testify against the actor.
In 2016, Jolie filed for divorce and said the reason for the split was to ensure the “wellbeing” of her family. While the millionaire couple finalized their divorce in 2019, their bitter custody battle continues.
Amid the legal drama, Us Weekly revealed that the actress claimed three of her children wanted to testify against her ex-husband in a December 2020 court document.
“The children whose custody is at issue are old enough to understand what is going on. The trial is necessarily going to impact them emotionally,” the lawyer of the 46-year-old Tomb Raider star noted.
“To make any of the children endure what may be a futile and void proceeding is beyond unjustified. It is cruel.”
Jolie’s legal team filed the specified document in a bit to remove Judge John Ouderkirk from the case. While Brad and Angelina agreed to have Ouderkirk, who is a private judge, rule over their case, the actress last year demanded he is removed after it was revealed that he has “ongoing business and professional relationships” with her ex-husband’s legal team.
As Jolie said last August, she will appeal Ouderkirk’s ruling on grounds that the judge is compromised.
Earlier this year, Jolie’s lawyers also argued that the actress was denied “a fair trial” and that the judge “improperly excluded her evidence relevant to the children’s health, safety, and welfare, evidence critical to making her case.”
Angelina and Brad share six kids including Knox, 12, Vivienne, 12, Shiloh, 14, Zahara, 16, Pax, 17, and Maddox, 19.
As an insider revealed last month, the couple’s eldest child reportedly made a testimony that wasn’t very kind to his father. Maddox allegedly also doesn’t want to use Pitt as his last name and wants to have it legally changed to Jolie.
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