Jan. 16 2024, Printed 5:59 p.m. ET
Mama June requested a court docket to dismiss the custody lawsuit introduced by her late daughter’s ex — and accused him of being abusive to her daughter whereas they had been collectively.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, the fact star responded to the case introduced by Michael Cardwell over custody of Anna’s 11-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn.
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Michael and Anna share an 8-year-old daughter named Kylee. Michael is NOT Kaitlyn’s organic father.
In his swimsuit, Michael requested the court docket to award him custody of Kaitlyn. He argued the sisters shouldn’t be separated following their mom’s loss of life.
Michael claimed to have raised Kaitlyn as his personal and even paid for her schooling.
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Kylee has lived with Michael since Anna’s loss of life. Kaitlyn has lived with Mama June.
As RadarOnline.com first reported, Mama June was awarded short-term custody of her late daughter’s daughter final month.
June filed an emergency petition in Georgia court docket days after Anna handed away following a battle with most cancers.
In her paperwork, June mentioned that the id of the 11-year-old’s father was “unknown.” Her submitting added, “The kid doesn’t have a authorized father.”
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“Extra just lately, roughly one month earlier than her passing the mom and little one started residing with [June],” the submitting learn.
June claimed she isn’t “conscious of any events apart from herself that may have standing to hunt custody of the kid.”
The court docket granted June short-term custody however set a listening to to find out whether or not to make the order everlasting.
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The petition was filed days after Michael filed his petition.
Now, June requested the court docket to dismiss Michael’s petition. She claimed that Kylee would typically not need to go to Michael except Kaitlyn got here together with her.
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Michael Cartwright shared one daughter, 8-year-old Kylee, with Anna Cartwright and mentioned he acted as Kaitlyn’s organic dad.
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June claimed that “whereas Kaitlyn did typically accompany her sibling, the visits had been rare. When [Michael] resided in Alabama, he solely visited with Kaitlyn at most as soon as monthly, typically going three (3) months between visits.”
In his petition, Michael claimed Anna had a “very sorted relationship” with June all through her life and went via numerous intervals with out chatting with her. He claimed June’s presence in Kaitlyn’s life has been “inconsistent.”
June denied the claims.
Her response argued, “Exterior of 1 quick interval of disagreement, [June] and Anna had a steady parent-child relationship. Kaitlin has spent her childhood recurrently seeing and spending time with [June]. However, [Michael] has been an inconsistent presence within the little one’s life since not less than 2017.”
June mentioned Michael has had “sporadic contact” with the kid.
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Relating to Michael’s declare he paid for Kaitlyn’s schooling, June mentioned she, “believes that [Michael] paid for tuition for the kid at Glad Hole for about two and a half years in change for not paying any little one assist for his different little one. The kid is now not enrolled at Glad Hole.”
June mentioned Anna’s widower, Eldridge Toney, “has been the one father determine to the kid since a number of months after [Michael] and Anna separated in 2017.”
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“Throughout his marriage to Anna, [Michael] often bodily abused Anna and the kid and it could not be within the little one’s finest pursuits to be in [Michael’s] care and management,” June mentioned.
Michael Carwell’s legal professional Donald Lewis Roberts tells RadarOnline.com, “Michael denies these allegations. That is the primary time that any of those allegations have been made in opposition to him. He and Anna had an incredible relationship after they had been married and easily separated as a consequence of variations in opinions and personalities.”
He continued, “They managed to get alongside all through the divorce as effectively and had maintained an excellent relationship together with his household and him. They’ve all the time caught collectively for his or her youngsters, and we’ll see what proof Ms. Shannon has for all these claims, these very critical claims, to make on anyone — if she has any proof in any respect.”
A choose has but to rule.