Scarlett Johansson May Face A Nasty Custody Dispute For Her Daughter

Scarlett Johansson and her French husband Romain Dauriac have called it quits, and now the couple are focused on who gets their 2-year old daughter Rose Dorothy.

Johansson filed for divorce from Dauriac earlier this week and both are seeking residential custody of their child. This could be a difficult legal battle for the both of them.

According to Dauriac’s lawyer Harold Mayerson who spoke to PEOPLE, Romain plans to petition the court to allow him and his daughter to move to France. Mayerson has said, “He believes that her schedule makes it impossible for her to have physical custody.”

Unfortunately Johannson may have to fight hard as courts look to see which parents have more stable living environments.
Steve Mindel is a L.A. based family law specialist and he believes the court is “going to want to keep the child in that kind of stable living arrangement.”

“The courts really have to try to design a program that works for the child as well as for the parents,” he said. “The court is going to look at this and say, ‘Okay, what are the travel schedules of both parents?’”

New York courts will have to make the decision and Mindel says, “Notwithstanding the fact that the child doesn’t live in the jurisdiction, the court can impose a lot of conditions — one party pay the travel expenses of the other, the child have frequent contact by Skype and telephone calls, that the child is transported back and forth between the United States and France or France and the United States, depending upon where the child is.”

“Because the child is not in school yet, the court can be very flexible with the schedule,” he says.

Johnasson said in a statement, “As a devoted mother and private person and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage. Out of respect for my desires as a parent and out of respect for all working moms, it is with kindness that I ask other parties involved and the media to do the same.”