00:00 Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have nearly settled an important part of their heated divorce.
00:06 The estranged couple is close to a "amicable resolution" in their ongoing custody battle, Access Hollywood confirms.
00:14 According to court documents obtained by Access on Tuesday, both parties agreed to alternate custody of their two daughters,
00:21 three-year-old Willa and one-year-old Delphine, two weeks at a time, until January of 2024.
00:27 The papers state that the timing will enable the girls to spend Thanksgiving with Joe and Christmas with Sophie,
00:33 and each parent is permitted to travel with the kids to the UK or any state within the U.S.
00:38 The Game of Thrones star and the Jonas Brothers musician underwent three days of mediation at a federal courthouse in New York City in early October.
00:46 The newest legal proceedings come after Sophie filed a lawsuit alleging Joe's "wrongful retention" of the girls
00:53 and requesting at the time that they be returned to her home country of England.
00:57 Federal court documents filed in September and obtained by Access Hollywood at the time
01:02 noted that Sophie and Joe lived in multiple locations during their relationship
01:06 and allegedly agreed to settle permanently in England with their kids.
01:10 They began searching for their "forever home" overseas in late 2022 and were "very excited" for the move, the docs claimed.
01:18 Additional paperwork obtained by Access claimed that Sophie possessed a note Joe had allegedly written to persuade a homeowner in Oxford, England
01:26 to sell them their property, which the family would have lived in full-time.
01:30 Joe filed for divorce in Florida in early September after four years of marriage, a move which Sophie claimed in her petition came as a surprise.
01:38 According to the docs, the pair had an argument in mid-August
01:42 and Sophie didn't discover the divorce proceedings were official until the news went public on September 5.
01:48 In a statement to Access, Joe denied the claims made in Sophie's suit,
01:52 alleging that she was indeed aware he intended to file for divorce
01:56 and claiming that the Florida court order had prevented either of them from relocating the children.
02:01 The actress had been working in England on her upcoming TV series, Joan,
02:05 while Joe remained in the States with the girls during his tour with brothers Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas.
02:10 Sophie's petition claimed she had hesitation about the initial arrangement.
02:14 In her lawsuit, Sophie's legal team accused Joe of refusing to return their daughters' passports.
02:20 The petition claimed that the pair met after their split to discuss custody arrangements
02:24 when Joe allegedly revealed he had changed his mind about having the kids live in England.
02:29 According to Joe's rep, the singer felt that he and Sophie had reached an understanding about their co-parenting approach during their post-split meeting.
02:37 The statement alleged that Sophie expressed her desire for the children to be taken to England permanently,
02:42 which Joe's team claimed was a violation of the Florida court order if he complied.
02:47 The statement added that the kids have spent most of their lives in the States
02:50 and Joe is "okay" with them being raised in both the U.S. and the U.K.
02:55 Ahead of the mediation, an interim consent was filed on behalf of Sophie and Joe on September 25,
03:01 indicating their agreement to keep the children in New York City as they navigate their divorce.
03:06 Sophie and Joe have only issued one joint statement on their breakup,
03:10 saying in respective Instagram posts on September 6 that they had "mutually decided to amicably end their marriage."
03:17 They also referenced the "speculative narrative" surrounding the news and insisted the choice was a united one.
03:23 In his divorce filing, Joe called the marriage "irretrievably broken" and indicated plans for joint custody of the girls.
03:30 After a two-year engagement, he and Sophie tied the knot in 2019 in double ceremonies,
03:36 one in Las Vegas after that year's Billboard Music Awards and then in a more formal wedding in France.
03:41 Since the split, the British actress has been spotted out with new pal Taylor Swift,
03:46 a former girlfriend of Joe's, enjoying multiple dinners and even a football game with fellow celebs Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds,
03:53 where they all cheered on Taylor's rumored beau, NFL star Travis Kelce.
03:57 Sophie has also reportedly been staying in Taylor's Manhattan apartment with the girls.
04:02 Joe, meanwhile, took the stage at a Jonas Brothers concert in Los Angeles after his divorce filing
04:07 and told fans not to believe anything they read about his personal life unless they hear it directly from him.
04:14 "I'm sorry. If you don't hear it from these guys, it's probably me. Thank you.
04:21 Thank you to everyone who loves the work that I do. Me and my family need you guys."
