Angelina Jolie has asked to remove the private judge who oversees her long-running divorce and child molestation with Brad Pitt.
The actress states that Judge John W. Ouderkirk should be disqualified from her divorce case, filed in 2016. Attorneys for Jolie filed a motion in the Superior Court in Los Angeles, claiming that the judge was not sufficiently informed about other cases that he presided over that involved Pitt’s attorney, Anne C. Kiley.
The papers state that Ouderkirk during the Jolie-Pitt trial all “failed to disclose the cases that the current, ongoing, repeated customer relationship between the judge and [Pitt’s] rie. ”
However, a source close to the case said this was a delaying tactic by Jolie, as she believed things were not going in her favor. The source said the main issue is supervision over her children and her request for more child support.
The source said: “Jolie is in principle trying to shoot the private judge who is overseeing her divorce case. She has the right to do so, but if she thought she was in the right place in this legal process, she would not have to. This is a classic case when someone expects a bad decision to delay the process by asking a new referee. Judge Ouderkirk could not be reached, and lawyers for Jolie and Pitt did not return to us.
The source added that Jolie’s move is unusual: While Pitt’s team tried to keep the same judge, and to ensure that personal details shared in the case were kept private, Jolie is now a public court involved and delay everything that is resolved. “This is about how much time Brad gets with the kids, how sharing time with the kids works … This divorce has been four years, for fun.”
Jolie, 45, and Pitt, 56, were a couple for 12 years and married for two when Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. They were divorced last year when their lawyers asked for a bifurcated judgment, which meant they single were declared while other problems, including finances and childcare, continue to exist. They have six children.
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