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Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas Nearing ‘Amicable’ Custody Agreement Amid Transatlantic Divorce
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After several days of mediation last week, it appears Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas may be nearing an amicable custody agreement amid their divorce.
According to court documents, an amicable resolution on all issues between them is forthcoming.
In the meantime, the pair reached a temporary custody agreement that has them trading time with the kids until January, and they’ll spend Thanksgiving with Jonas and Christmas with Turner. In addition, Turner will be allowed to travel to the U.K. with the children during her allotted custody times.
Jonas filed for divorce in Miami, Fla., last month, while the English actress was filming her new TV series in the U.K. Things got heated when Turner wrapped filming and flew to the U.S., only to find out she could not take their two daughters back to the U.K. with her as planned.
Turner filed a lawsuit alleging that Jonas wrongfully refused to turn over the children’s passports. According to Turner’s petition, the pair made England their permanent home earlier this year. When she began filming in May, it was agreed that the children would go with Jonas and a nanny on the Jonas Brothers tour. Once Turner finished filming, the plan was for her to retrieve the children in New York and return with them to the U.K.
In response to the filing, Jonas’s representatives in statement said that if Jonas complied with an order to hand over the children’s passports, he would be violating an existing court order in connection with the Florida petition that bars each of them from relocating the children during the divorce proceedings.
Joe is seeking shared parenting with the kids so that they are raised by both their mother and father, and is of course also okay with the kids being raised both in the U.S. and the UK, the statement read, before noting that the children were born in the U.S. and have spent the vast majority of their lives in the U.S.
But according to Turner’s lawsuit, the children, who have dual citizenship, are “fully involved and integrated” in their lives in England, with the older daughter, 3-year-old Willa, attending school there.
Turner, 27 and Jonas, 34, married in 2019, and had their second daughter, whose name was only recently revealed to be Delphine, in July 2022.
The Florida court ruled on Sept. 27 that it would not make any decisions until the New York court decided whether custody should be decided in the U.S. or the U.K.
An interim consent order required the couple to keep the children in the Southern and Eastern districts of New York, which includes New York City, until the matter was resolved.
TMX contributed to this article.
