
Family law experts said that PItt’s consent to supervised visits allowed him to show he was making an effort to be a good father and practice “appropriate parenting.” In June 2019, it also was reported that Pitt and Jolie were working toward an “amicable” co-parenting relationship.Īt some point that supposed rapprochement fell apart and Jolie reportedly objected to Pitt having 50/50 custody. It also was reported in 20 that the actor was happy to have visits with his children supervised by a court-appointed monitor. He always denied being physically abusive to his children, while the FBI and child welfare officials cleared Pitt of wrongdoing over his confrontation with Maddox. Pitt later came clean in interviews about how he sought help to deal with problems with drinking and managing his anger. One known allegation from Jolie centered around a confrontation between Pitt and Maddox that took place on a private plane as the family was flying back from Europe. The epic legal battle between Hollywood’s once-most prominent couple goes back to September 2016 when Jolie filed for divorce and immediately accused Pitt of domestic violence. They instead seem focus on fears of his children being alienated from him, even if he and Jolie occupy nearby estates in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Pitt’s concerns appear to go beyond his children’s living arrangements.

The courts try to do what’s best for the children but they understand once they get to 15, 16, 17, there’s not much courts can do at that point.” They want to do sports or be with their friends.

“They want to go to their boyfriend or girlfriend’s house. “Sometimes they don’t want to see mom or dad,” Nottes continued. “As children get into their teenage years, there is only so much a court can do to force teenagers to spend time with either parent,” Daniel Nottes, a New York-based family law attorney, told this news organization in 2021. That’s because it’s difficult for a court to enforce the usual custody issues of where children will live and how much time they will spend with either parent once children should be old enough to make those decisions themselves. Prominent divorce attorneys have previously told this news organization that it’s questionable to continue a custody fight once the children become teenagers. That leaves daughter Shiloh, 15, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13, who would become the focus of their parents’ court fight. When it comes to them, the custody fight has become moot. In fact, two of the children - sons Maddox, 20, and Pax, 18 - already are adults.


(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 18: (L-R) Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Zahara Jolie Pitt, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, and Knox Jolie Pitt arrive at the Premiere of Marvel Studios’ Eternals on Octoin Hollywood, California. More upsetting, the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star is under the impression that Jolie hopes the children “will want nothing to do with” him once they are of age, the source said. Pitt, 58, has been “lamenting to pals” that his ex-wife, 46, will never agree to joint custody and basically wants “to run out the clock until the kids are 18,” a source has told Us Weekly. After nearly six years of a nasty custody battle, Brad Pitt is reportedly staring down a grim possibility that he’ll never have much of a relationship with his six children with Angelina Jolie.
