Sharon Stone Loses Physical Custody Of Son To Ex
Actress Sharon Stone has lost physical custody of her eight-year-old son Roan to her ex-husband Phil Bronstein. It isn't due to her being an unfit mother, however, but it seems to be rather a question of geography:
A Superior Court judge found that the boy, who is living with his father in the Bay Area and attending school there, will remain with Bronstein unless Stone, who lives in L.A., relocates to San Francisco or Bronstein decides to move, according to minutes from a Sept. 12 custody hearing."The court does not find that (a) move away is in child's best interest," say the minutes. "Court finds that (Bronstein) can provide a more structured continuity, stable, secure, and consistent home that child, Roan, needs. (Bronstein) shall have permanent sole physical custody of child."
Stone, however, "shall have access to child," the minutes say, and her phone number "shall be programmed into the child's telephone and home phone."
Stone's lawyer, Marty Singer, says that contrary to the wording in the minutes, Stone still has joint physical custody of Roan, and that the court only denied her request to allow Roan to attend school in Southern California, where Stone lives with her two other children, instead of San Francisco.
"The court order of 2007 provided that Roan was to go to school in San Francisco. Sharon went to court to try and modify the existing order," Singer says. "She wanted the court to modify the order so her child could go to school in Los Angeles. But the court felt that, for whatever reason, that she did not meet a burden to move him out of San Francisco during the school year."
I can see that...uprooting a child in the middle of the school year can be a very difficult adjustment, especially for a younger child. It would have been nice had the two parents been able to settle this without the aid of a judge, though. Wouldn't she, as a parent, know that yanking a child out of his established school and schedule and taking him away from his friends isn't the brightest idea? Continued on the next page
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