Jolie
has physical custody of the kids, and initially, the couple agreed to a
plan proposed by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and
Family Services that allowed Pitt regular visits with his six children,
supervised by a therapist (Jolie's lawyer said in January that he had been seeing them once a week since October). The couple announced on Jan. 10 that they would be keeping further developments on their divorce sealed and out of the press.
Now, in May, they're very much in the middle of the settlement process,
with Pitt and Jolie working on the visitation arrangement.
Initially,
it was hard to deal with the restrictions, Pitt said. "I was really on
my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called. And you
know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out.
We're both doing our best."
He
and Jolie are avoiding a court battle, Pitt added. "I heard one lawyer
say, 'No one wins in court—it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse.'
And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a
case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and
it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And
fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for
the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart. If anyone can make
sense of it, we have to with great care and delicacy, building
everything around that.
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