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Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas 'reach agreement' after bitter war over two daughters

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Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas 'reach agreement' after bitter war over two daughters
Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas 'reach agreement' after bitter war over two daughters

SOPHIE Turner and Joe Jonas’ bitter divorce appears to be over after both sides said they expect it to be resolved ‘amicably’.

The exes agreed to a custody sharing arrangement and said in court documents that a ‘resolution on all issues is forthcoming’.

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Sophie Turner and ex Joe Jonas have reached an agreement over their daughtersCredit: TheImageDirect.com
Joe seen in New York last month
Joe seen in New York last monthCredit: Getty

Turner and Jonas will each get two weeks with their daughters Willa, three, and Delphine, one, until January.

A trial is due to take place then but the court filings in New York suggest they are working out their differences.

They will also be allowed to travel to anywhere in the US and the UK, meaning that Turner can bring the girls to England which she claims will be their ‘forever home’.

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While Jonas will get to take the girls on tour with his pop group, The Jonas Brothers, Turner will get to spend Christmas with them in the UK with her family.

The agreement comes after four days of intense mediation in New York, where the girls are currently staying with Turner, who played Sanska Stark in Game of Thrones.

The court filing from Turner’s lawyer Stephen Cullen called the mediation ‘ongoing and productive’ and that the custody sharing comes ‘in anticipation of an amicable resolution of all issues’.

Cullen appears to have made good on his promise to ‘bring down the mercury’ made during a court hearing in New York last week.

Jonas filed for divorce in Miami on September 1st with sources close to him claiming that Turner had been out partying too much, leaving him alone to look after their daughters.

Turner, 27, fired back accusing Jonas, 34, of refusing to hand over the girls’ passports so they could return to England with her.

She cited an international child abduction law as grounds for the children being with her.

The split has sparked court proceedings in Miami, the UK and New York, which is where the child custody part is being handled.

The court filing in New York states that both sides are engaged in mediation in the UK and the US.

Under the previous interim consent order, the girls had to stay in New York.

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The second interim consent order, which both sides requested that a judge approve, states that both sides have agreed that the girls will be with Turner from October 9th to the 21st.

Turner may ‘temporarily travel’ with them to anywhere in the US or the UK but must return them to New York on the 21st where they will be ‘transferred’ to Jonas.

The handover must take place at a time and location suitable to both parties, the filing states.

Jonas will be with the children until November 2nd when he or their nanny will bring them back to New York.

He will be able to travel anywhere in the US, meaning that the girls will be able to accompany him on his US tour with the Jonas brothers.

During those dates the group is scheduled to play in Austin, Texas; San Diego, California, and Anaheim, California.

On November 2nd they are set to play in Fresno, California, which may explain why their nanny could bring them back to New York for the handover.

The document states that Turner will have the children for the following two weeks until November 22nd and Jonas will have them for the next two weeks until December 16th under the same conditions.

Turner will get to spend Christmas with her daughters as she will be with them from the 16th of December until January 7th, at which point she will have to return them to New York.

A trial to resolve the custody matters is scheduled for January 2nd.

Turner's lawyers Richard Min and Michael Banuchis filed a motion requesting a stay of the trial for January which said that the mediation had been 'productive'.

They wrote: 'The parties believe that an amicable resolution on all issues between them is forthcoming'.

Previous legal filings have detailed how the couple’s three year marriage rapidly broke up in August after Jonas reportedly saw Turner insulting him on their Ring camera.

He filed for divorce two weeks later claiming their relationship was ‘irretrievably broken’.

But Turner responded with the lawsuit in New York.

In court papers she claimed that the couple sold their home in Miami in March and that they bought a $9m home near Oxford in the UK which they meant as their ‘forever home’.

Turner went further in legal filings in Miami where she included a letter Jonas wrote to the seller of the property that showed him gushing about the prospect of living there.

Daniel Bates

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