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Halle Berry facing child custody war

Published on May 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM

Halle Berry (R) and Gabriel Aubry[HMG] – We reported recently on how Halle Berry and former beau, Gabriel Audry were caught in an unfriendly break-up. Well, being Hollywood, things have since got much worse.

The pair split several months ago and have since been to a lawyer to resolve custody and financial details regarding their two-year old daughter, Nahla. But Halle, 43, is now booked for a three-month movie shoot in South Africa, so Gabriel is considering getting full legal custody.

“It’s been difficult for Gabriel to see Nahla the last few weeks,” a source told Radar. “And he’s seriously considering pursuing permanent custody. [The shoot] would mean Gabriel not seeing her for three months and there’s no way he’s going to take that.”

Gabriel, 34, initially tried to persuade Halle to leave Nahla with him, but that effort went nowhere.

“The two reached a total stalemate and it got nasty, with both of them looking at starting a legal battle,” the source claims. “In the end they reached an agreement: Halle will pay for Gabriel to go to South Africa and be Nahla’s full-time caregiver.”

Halle has a house rented for the length of the shoot and they will live there full-time. But there’s also ‘Plan B”…

“If it doesn’t work out she’s agreed to rent a house for Gabriel nearby. Then he gets to be with Nahla while Halle’s working, and returns to his place at night.”

Sounds almost cozy. So could we see a rebound on their romance from this? Apparently…no.

“This is not an attempt at reconciliation,” we’re told. “It’s over between them. If it wasn’t for the fact of sharing a child, they’d quite happily never see each other again.”

The feeling’s quite mutual. So who do you want to win the custody war?…

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