Mr Justice MacDonald<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\nRocco had lived with Madonna since her divorce from Guy Ritchie in 2008 – but he abruptly left his mother while on tour in Europe late last year.<\/p>\n
He then moved in with his father and step-mother, model Jacqui Ainsley, in London and enrolled in school. Madonna had accused Ritchie of “illegally retaining” the teenager.<\/p>\n
The case will now return to New York, where a judge ruled last December that Rocco should be returned to his mother’s custody.<\/p>\n
That ruling was ignored – and Madonna’s lawyers suggested Ritchie be arrested for contempt of court and compelled to appear in New York.<\/p>\n
State Supreme Court Justice Deborah Kaplan dismissed the plan, and implored the parents to reach an amicable solution.<\/p>\n
“No one is disrupting his household other than the inability of the parents to reach a resolution,” she said. “If they cannot resolve this matter then eventually the court will.”<\/p>\n
She also scolded the couple for seeking to resolve the matter through the courts, and urged them to take “this tremendous pressure” off their son.<\/p>\n
“Frankly, both parties here have chosen to live their lives in a very public way, and may welcome the exposure, but the child has not,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I urge them to consider what is the best interests of their son – which may be to remove him from the spotlight.”<\/p>\n
After the hearing in New York, Madonna’s lawyers filed a motion at the family division of London’s High Court under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.<\/p>\n
There, the judge echoed the words of his New York counterpart, urging Ritchie and Madonna to reach an “amicable settlement” to this “highly unfortunate and deeply regrettable” family dispute.<\/p>\n
Madonna later sought to withdraw her application. Judge Alistair MacDonald said he would consider the evidence before deciding whether he should allow English proceedings to draw to a close – or whether he should make decisions about Rocco’s welfare.<\/p>\n
The court was told the affair had been upsetting for the teenager.<\/p>\n
“Having this order over his head is stressful and upsetting to him,” said Rocco’s lawyer, Ellen Sigal.<\/p>\n
Handing down his ruling on Monday, the judge again appealed to the family to resolve their differences.<\/p>\n
“At the root of these proceedings… is a temporary breakdown in trust,” he said.<\/p>\n
“For all the media coverage, comment and analysis, this is a case born out of circumstances that arise for countless separated parents the world over.<\/p>\n
“I renew, one final time, my plea for the parents to seek, and to find, an amicable resolution to the dispute between them.”<\/p>\n
Neither Madonna nor Ritchie attended the hearing. Lawyers for the couple said they had both outlined proposals for negotiation.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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