UK judge implores Madonna, Ritchie to settle custody dispute
Posted March 21, 2016 7:00 am
LONDON (AP) - A British judge says it will be a "tragedy" if Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie don't resolve their custody battle over 15-year-old son Rocco.
Judge Alistair MacDonald says Rocco is a "very great credit" to his parents, and it would be best if both can spend time with him.
The judge says "it would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the precious and fast-receding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute."
Madonna and Ritchie divorced in 2008. Madonna wants Rocco, who currently lives with his father in England, to return to her custody in the U.S.
She launched legal action in the U.S. and Britain, but later asked to halt the British proceedings. MacDonald agreed Monday that she could.
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