Halle Berry has filed paperwork in court docket requesting that her ex-husband, French actor Olivier Martinez, be ordered to adjust to a earlier order that he attend co-parenting periods with a parenting coach.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by ET, the 57-year-old actress claims Martinez, 58, has didn’t adjust to the order entered on Might 29. She claims Martinez “unilaterally terminated” co-parenting remedy “without Halle’s and Dr. Portanova’s prior knowledge and agreement for the months of July and August because he wants to have ‘the summer off’ from co-parenting therapy.”
ET has reached out to reps for Berry and Martinez for remark.
Had Martinez complied with the order from the start, Berry claims the events would have accomplished their particular person periods and thus began their conjoint periods by now, and all in one of the best curiosity of their 9-year-old son, Maceo.
However “none of that has occurred,” Berry claims in authorized paperwork she filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom.
“In fact, not a single conjoint session has been scheduled and not a single third party has been contacted,” she claims in her court docket paperwork.
As for why, Berry claims Martinez “unilaterally decided to defer coparenting therapy altogether until September because he was traveling to France in the month of July and because his brother will be visiting him in the month of August in Los Angeles.”
Martinez, Berry claims, has “effectively decided to take ‘the summer off’ even though all coparenting sessions with Dr. Portanova occur over Zoom, “regardless of the place the events are on the earth.”
She further claims he “refuses to finish obligatory paperwork that will enable the coparenting therapist to talk to obligatory third events.” In essence, she claims, Martinez “has usurped the whole therapeutic course of by refusing to interact and depriving the coparenting therapist of what she wants to maneuver the method ahead.”
Berry claims that by Martinez suggesting co-parenting therapy earlier this year, he has “succeeded in his main goal: to delay intervention in any respect prices in order that he can proceed to intrude with Halle’s relationship with Maceo with out repercussion.”
“It ought to by no means be obligatory to hunt judicial intervention solely to compel a celebration to adjust to their very own agreements. An individual’s phrase — notably those who grow to be contractual obligations after which orders of the Courtroom — ought to carry weight and have which means,” Berry states in her court documents. “Sadly, that has not been the usual upheld by [Martinez] on this case. On the contrary, he has chosen to repeatedly violate agreements and court docket orders with careless disregard. To him, the phrases of the events’ stipulated court docket orders are merely options to comply with when it advantages him and which he ignores when it doesn’t match his alienation agenda. Olivier’s conduct harms the events’ son, Maceo, causes additional injury to the events’ already strained relationship and forces [Berry], to incur pointless lawyer’s charges to continually search aid from the Courtroom.”
For these reasons, Berry has filed legal paperwork requesting the court to order Martinez to comply with the order that he attend co-parenting sessions with a parenting coach.
As ET previously reported, Dr. Portanova’s primary focus will be to try and help the former couple learn ways to “resolve disputes and conflicts between in an effort to efficiently co-parent… in a way that promotes Maceo’s greatest pursuits.”
Berry and Martinez filed for divorce in October 2015 after two years of marriage. The two filed separately, citing irreconcilable differences. They were declared legally single in December 2016.
This divorce marked Berry’s third. Berry — who is now dating Van Hunt — was previously married first to baseball player David Justice and then singer Eric Benet. She also dated model Gabriel Aubry, with whom she has one daughter, 16-year-old Nahla.
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