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Yahoo Entertainment: Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas's custody battle is complicated due to their globe-trotting lifestyle, a family lawyer explains
Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’s custody battle is not only bitter but messy due to their globe-trotting lifestyle, a legal expert says. Turner filed a petition for the return of their children to England. She accused Jonas, who she’s divorcing, of the “wrongful retention” of their daughters. Turner claims Jonas won’t turn over the American-born children’s passports and let her return with them to England, where she claims they moved full-time in April.
A child’s legal residence is determined by where they’ve resided for the last six months. “When a child is living somewhere for six months, that place is deemed their ‘home state,'” family and matrimonial law attorney Nancy Chemtob tells us. “So, for example, if you live in Massachusetts for seven months and all of a sudden one spouse says, ‘I want to get divorced. I want to take the kids to Colorado,'” she continues. “You can’t because it’s a six-month rule.” That said, a judge will also take into consideration the best interest of the children.
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Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’s custody battle is not only bitter but messy due to their globe-trotting lifestyle, a legal expert says. Turner filed a petition for the return of their children to England. She accused Jonas, who she’s divorcing, of the “wrongful retention” of their daughters. Turner claims Jonas won’t turn over the American-born children’s passports and let her return with them to England, where she claims they moved full-time in April.
A child’s legal residence is determined by where they’ve resided for the last six months. “When a child is living somewhere for six months, that place is deemed their ‘home state,'” family and matrimonial law attorney Nancy Chemtob tells us. “So, for example, if you live in Massachusetts for seven months and all of a sudden one spouse says, ‘I want to get divorced. I want to take the kids to Colorado,'” she continues. “You can’t because it’s a six-month rule.” That said, a judge will also take into consideration the best interest of the children.
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