Madonna's son Rocco ordered back to U.S. despite desire to live in Britain with dad Guy Ritchie - Los Angeles Times
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Madonna’s son Rocco ordered back to U.S. despite desire to live in Britain with dad Guy Ritchie

Madonna attends the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015, in New York City.

Madonna attends the “China: Through The Looking Glass” Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015, in New York City.

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Madonna has taken legal measures to bring her son Rocco back to the United States, and a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has granted her “all the relief” that she requested.

The Material Girl, 57, whose full name is Madonna Ciccone, appeared in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday, according to the New York Daily News, and a judge granted her legal request to have her 15-year-old son return from London, where he lives with his father, director Guy Ritchie, with whom the singer split in 2008.

It’s the latest development in the Grammy winner’s custody battle with her ex-husband, with whom she co-parents Rocco and their adopted son David, 10. The singer is also mom to daughter Lourdes from another relationship and adopted daughter Mercy.

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Ritchie, who directed “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” has three children with his current wife, Jacqui Ainsley.

Rocco is said to be sick of traveling with his mom and her Rebel Heart Tour, which kicked off in North America in September and just wrapped its European leg, and he didn’t want to spend the holidays at her Manhattan townhouse, Page Six said. The teen reportedly refused to board a U.S.-bound plane from London.

Rocco wants to live in London long-term, according to Gossip Cop, and when the judge asked whether he had been prevented from returning stateside, Ritchie’s attorney said that he had “effectively” been keeping the boy in Britain.

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Ritchie’s attorney argued that Rocco “expressed very clearly that he does not want to return to New York.” However, the judge said Rocco would first have to come back to New York to begin the process of changing his primary living arrangement.

Rocco will have his own court-appointed lawyer to help him with the potential custody change, the reports said, and neither Madonna nor Ritchie is allowed to discuss the case with him.

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