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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess at least it's a resolution for them from now.

Having had kids these ages, it's hard for me to imagine shuttling them back and forth between two countries every two weeks. It's also hard to imagine divorcing with kids at this age, but in my mind if it happened, you'd be living in the same city and doing whatever you could to maintain consistency for the kids -- share a nanny who works at both homes, or even share a "family" home and then the parents change places, or something.

It sounds so stressful, and unlikely to resolve because even if, for instance, a judge ordered that they had to keep the kids in the same country while sharing custody ([b]I don't even know if a judge could order this because the kids have dual citizenship and the parents have different nationalities, so I don't even know if a judge could say "no, you have to stay here" without running into issues with immigration and international choice of law rules[/b]), their jobs are going to mean a lot of moving around.

Kids need stability. I really hope they can both grow up enough to BOTH make sacrifices to provide that stability. Which I think for Sophie could mean not being able to live in the UK with them, and for Joe could mean giving up on how much he tours and being forced to settle in one place for an extended period. Alternatively if he wants to keep touring as much as he has been, he should just let Sophie take them to the UK, but then maybe she'd have to sacrifice job opportunities in order to give them stability there.

No matter which way you slice it, it's going to suck for someone. I just hope it's not the kids because they had no choice in the matter.[/quote]

There were extenuating circumstances (i.e., work visa revoked) but that is essentially what happened in Kelly Rutherford's custody battle. The court awarded full custody to her ex, and her kids live overseas. [/quote]

Yes but the whole point is there were extenuating circumstance that led to that decision. It's incredibly rare. In Rutherford's case, it happened because the court found that she was attempting to alienate the kids' father from them (it was found that Kelly was the one to report her ex to Homeland Security and that's why his visa was temporarily revoked, which is a huge deal). That led to him being awarded full custody, and since he was in the US on a visa only and wanted to return to Monaco, as the parent with full custody, he was permitted to do that.

It was only allowed because Rutherford was found to be interfering with his parental rights. Without that detail, they would have been awarded joint custody, as is standard, and had to figure out a way to do that internationally if that's what they both wanted and couldn't agree to stay in the same country.[/quote]

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