Halle Berry has filed paperwork in court requesting that her ex-husband, French actor Olivier Martinez, be ordered to comply with a previous order that he attend co-parenting sessions with a parenting coach.
According to court documents obtained by ET, the 57-year-old actress claims Martinez, 58, has failed to comply with the order entered on May 29. She claims Martinez “unilaterally terminated” co-parenting therapy “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 comment.
Had Martinez complied with the order from the beginning, Berry claims the parties would have completed their individual sessions and thus started their conjoint sessions by now, and all in the best interest of their 9-year-old son, Maceo.
But “none of that has occurred,” Berry claims in legal documents she filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“In fact, not a single conjoint session has been scheduled and not a single third party has been contacted,” she claims in her court documents.
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, “irrespective of where the parties are in the world.”
She further claims he “refuses to complete necessary paperwork that would allow the coparenting therapist to speak to necessary third parties.” In essence, she claims, Martinez “has usurped the entire therapeutic process by refusing to engage and depriving the coparenting therapist of what she needs to move the process forward.”
Berry claims that by Martinez suggesting co-parenting therapy earlier this year, he has “succeeded in his primary objective: to delay intervention at all costs so that he can continue to interfere with Halle’s relationship with Maceo without repercussion.”
“It should never be necessary to seek judicial intervention solely to compel a party to comply with their own agreements. A person’s word — particularly those that become contractual obligations and then orders of the Court — should carry weight and have meaning,” Berry states in her court documents. “Unfortunately, that has not been the standard upheld by [Martinez] in this case. To the contrary, he has chosen to repeatedly violate agreements and court orders with careless disregard. To him, the terms of the parties’ stipulated court orders are simply suggestions to follow when it benefits him and which he ignores when it does not fit his alienation agenda. Olivier’s conduct harms the parties’ son, Maceo, causes further damage to the parties’ already strained relationship and forces [Berry], to incur unnecessary attorney’s fees to constantly seek relief from the Court.”
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 successfully co-parent… in a manner that promotes Maceo’s best interests.”
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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