The custody case between actress Jaime King and estranged husband Kyle Newman took another turn Monday as a judge ordered Newman to have sole physical custody of their two young sons.
Newman, a 49-year-old director, was awarded sole physical custody of their kids James Knight, 11, and Leo Thames, nine, People reported after reviewing court docs on Monday.
The two boys with live with Newman, who will have final say on legal custody while the pair will share custody on paper amid the contentious case.
The judge said King, 45, must have her visits with her sons supervised until she finishes a mandated drug/alcohol program that lasts around six months.
The people approved in the supervisory role included her mother, sister, brother-in-law, and Newman’s brother Kevin, the outlet reported.
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The custody case between actress Jaime King, 45, and estranged husband Kyle Newman, 49, took another turn Monday as a judge ordered Newman to have sole physical custody of their two young sons. King pictured in LA in 2022
Newman, a 49-year-old director, was awarded sole physical custody of their kids James Knight, 11, and Leo Thames, nine, People reported after reviewing court docs on Monday
King, who played the role of Heather Vandergeld in the 2004 comedy White Chicks, has past been in court with her ex-husband to litigate custody concerns.
King – who has also been seen in movies such as 2009’s My Bloody Valentine and 2005’s Sin City – had filed less than a year ago with the court for an emergency request.
King filed the request to alter the agreement they made in terms of child and spousal support two years prior, People reported.
King ‘lacks the ability to pay the support,’ her attorneys said in legal docs, while Newman said King had ‘been out of compliance with the court’s child and spousal support orders for well over a year.’
The former couple initially wed in 2007 at the Los Angeles-based mansion Greystone Park and Manor.
Newman told the court that King would not ‘sign a judgment’ in their divorce agreement; and that she did not have the legal right to ‘rescind’ any of the court’s orders, the outlet reported.
The former couple initially wed in 2007 at the Los Angeles-based mansion Greystone Park and Manor.
King in May of 2020 entered a court filing requesting a divorce to end the 13-year marital union.
The former couple initially wed in 2007 at the Los Angeles-based mansion Greystone Park and Manor. Pictured in late 2019 in LA
King, 45, must have her visits with her sons supervised until she finishes a mandated drug/ alcohol program that lasts six months. Pictured in May 2024
King is ‘a chronic drug addict and alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem, let alone seek meaningful treatment for such problem,’ Newman said in 2020
King concurrently filed paperwork with the court requesting a emergency motion toward custody and visitation-related issues, the outlet reported, as well as a petition to prevent domestic violence.
Amid the custody row, King said in May of 2020 that Newman had put together an ‘intervention’ for her four months earlier after informing family and friends she was having substance abuse issues.
King in legal docs said she went a facility so she could be tested and cleared as drug-and-alcohol free. She said that days in, she had been sent home after passing a substance abuse test.
King is ‘a chronic drug addict and alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem, let alone seek meaningful treatment for such problem,’ Newman said in his legal filing at the time.
Newman told the court in a filing that ‘several friends’ informed him that she had used narcotics during both of her pregnancies. He added that doctors told him that their son Leo ‘was also addicted due to her continued drug use.’
He said he ‘was devastated’ to learn at the same medical appointment ‘that Leo Thames had a congenital heart defect and would need surgery to survive as soon as he was born.’
Newman said in his court filing that on occasion, King had driven ‘under the influence’ with their children in the vehicle, People reported.
King became ‘so intoxicated in front of them that they thought their mother was dying, and abandoning them for days at a time to get drunk and high instead of care for them.’
He added that ‘at one point, Jaime left Leo Thames at his doctor’s appointment with the nanny, only to be found over a half hour later at the liquor store across the street buying a bottle of alcohol.’
