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ANGIE HITS BRAD ON KID SUPPORT
Angelina Jolie alleges Brad Pitt has not paid “meaningful” child support for more than a year and a half.
Jolie made the claim in a court filing Tuesday, claiming she would ask the Los Angeles Superior Court to intervene if the “Fight Club” star doesn't further help support their six children, NBC News reports. Their children range in age from 10 to 16.
"(Pitt) has a duty to pay child support. As of present, (Pitt) has paid no meaningful child support since separation," Jolie's attorney Samantha Bley DeJean wrote in a two-page brief obtained by NBC News.
It's not clear how much Pitt has paid or how “meaningful child support” is being defined.
"Given the informal arrangements around the payment of the children's expenses have not been regularly sustained by (Pitt) for over a year and a half,” wrote DeJean. She added that Jolie would file retroactively for support payments.
The Hollywood power couple met in 2003 while filming “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and married in 2014. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. According to an E! report published Tuesday, the divorce battle has hit an impasse.
“There will be no settlement or resolution anytime soon,” according to an E! source. “They are kind of at an impasse at this point because the focus has been on custody; nothing else has been hashed out yet."
People magazine quotes a source close to the couple tying the support claims to the impending divorce.
“The filing today was only intended for the marriage to be dissolved, and before everything else can be dissolved, things have to be done by both parties, including financial disclosure and child support,” the magazine's source said.
Pitt's lawyers previously accused Jolie of compromising their children's rights to privacy with court filings naming health care professionals paid to look after them.
His reps declined to comment regarding child support payments.