Jim Edmonds has shared a photograph of himself and his three children after being quickly awarded custody of the kids.
Taking to his Instagram Story on Friday, November 28, Edmonds, 55, shared a household snap along with his daughter Aspen, 9, and twin sons, Hart and Hayes, each 7, all of whom he shares along with his ex-wife, Meghan King. The photograph additionally featured Edmonds’ present spouse Kortnie. He captioned it, “Numerous love.”
The put up comes after Us Weekly broke the information on November 19 that King, 41, had quickly misplaced custody of the three youngsters following an investigation by Little one Protecting Providers.
A number of sources advised Us earlier this month that King retained supervised visitation rights, however Edmonds has sole bodily custody of the three youngsters. The choice is momentary pending a listening to — scheduled for December — to find out whether or not the custody association will change into everlasting.
King and Edmonds married in 2014 earlier than splitting in 2019. The previous couple made headlines in 2022 when King filed for a brief restraining order. Within the authorized paperwork, she alleged that Edmonds exhibited “frequent and constant verbal abuse” towards her just about and on their court-monitored coparenting app, Our Household Wizard.
“This request for an order of safety is totally baseless and moreover makes an absolute mockery of the ache suffered by the hundreds of thousands of girls on this nation who’re reliable victims of abuse,” stated Edmonds’ rep, Steve Honig.
In Might this yr, police had been known as to Edmonds’ house after King allegedly entered the house he shares with spouse Kortnie with out permission. King advised cops that Edmonds was “emotionally abusive” towards her, which he denied in a press release to Us in September.
Jim Edmonds and Meghan King. (Picture courtesy of Meghan King/ Instagram)
“As typical, Meghan is telling tales. Her and Jim barely talk, so if somebody is emotionally abusing her, it’s not Jim,” a spokesperson claimed. “Jim is an lively and current father to all his youngsters. The unlucky a part of all that is that it’s the children who are suffering probably the most. Jim has all the time been keen to coparent in a respectful and productive method, nonetheless Meghan has but to reciprocate.”
Through the years, the pair has been open about their difficulties with navigating coparenting challenges.
King solely advised Us Weekly in February that she and Edmonds wrestle to coparent in an amicable method.
“I don’t know what coparenting is. … In an effort to coparent, you need to talk proper?” she advised Us on the time. “Yeah, so that might be begin. … I don’t assume [the kids] prefer it. I don’t assume they know any completely different, however I don’t assume they prefer it both. I want we might talk about issues about our kids, however we will’t.”
Two years previous to her coparenting admission, King shared that she had by no means “envisioned” her household unit being separated.
“’Households are created out of unconditional love,’ I believed. ‘Two mother and father climate life’s storms however all the time stay collectively to have a good time the following rainbows,’ I believed,” she wrote by way of a candid Instagram put up in Might 2020. “However that isn’t my story and that makes me really feel deeply regretful — like I failed my youngsters by not giving them a nuclear household. However in the present day I’m refusing to dwell on errors and s**tty conditions I can’t management; in the present day I management my response.
She concluded, “I miss my stepkids who made me a mom earlier than I had youngsters of my very own and I’m sending them a lot love. I miss my freedom. And I mourn the lack of what might’ve been. However regardless of this I take a look at my stunning tribe with delight as a result of I’m a mom to 3 unbelievable children and I’m the one one they’ve bought.”
