By Ina Michaelis-Ugwonno
When musician and actor Joe Jonas (34, Jonas Brothers) filed for divorce from “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner (27) at the beginning of September after four years of marriage, a bitter argument broke out over their daughters Delphine (1) and Willa ( 3).
Now the ex-couple have agreed on a temporary custody agreement for the little girls. They now have to be prepared for endless back and forth!
Current court documents show that Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner want to share custody (for now). Her daughters should now commute back and forth between mom and dad every 14 days. And between two continents.
What may seem sensible on paper becomes a real feat in reality. Kids who no longer have a permanent home. Two children’s rooms. Two points of life. Two worlds. In between there is an ocean and a distance of 5,600 kilometers as the crow flies. And mom and dad usually only do so individually.
Through mediation, Jonas and Turner have currently agreed on a so-called change model, the key details of which are now meticulously recorded in court documents. This means that in the future you will live with your children according to a schedule.
For Delphine and Willa it looks like this:
► From October 9th to 21st the children can be with mom Sophie Turner. During this time, the actress is also allowed to travel with her daughters to her native England, where she would like to move back.
► On October 21st, Turner (or the nanny) has to hand the daughters over to Joe Jonas in New York City. He will then keep them until November 2nd, and can also travel with them through the USA during this time and could therefore also take them on the J onas Brothers tour.
► On November 2nd we go back to mommy – until it’s daddy’s turn again on November 22nd. He can then have his children until December 16th. Then the holidays will soon be around the corner. And those (Christmas and New Year’s Eve) are then spent again with Mama Sophie. Until the kids pack up their things again on January 7th and move in with dad.
How long this will continue is still unclear. This agreement is initially only valid until January 2024.
Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are apparently happy with how they now divide their time as parents with their children. “After a productive and successful mediation, we have agreed that the children will spend their time equally in loving homes in the United States and the United Kingdom,” the former couple said in a joint statement to US Weekly: “We look forward to being great co-parents.”
They can’t yet express how the children feel about it. At one and three years old, they are still far too small to understand the full extent of their parents’ separation. What such back and forth does to them will only become apparent later.