Posted on 03/01/2016 7:30:55 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
ew York appeals court denied Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s petition seeking custody of his two children, Gawker reported on Monday.
The court’s Feb. 24 ruling upheld a Nassau County Supreme Court decision granting full custody of the 12-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl to Maureen McPhilmy, the Factor host’s ex-wife.
“Viewing the totality of the circumstances, there is a sound and substantial basis for the Supreme Court’s determination that it is in the best interests of the children for the mother to be awarded primary residential custody,” the Appellate Division Second Judicial Department court stated. “Particularly relevant in this case are the clearly stated preferences of the children, especially considering their age and maturity, and the quality of the home environment provided by the mother.”
Court transcripts published last May showed that the girl told a court-appointed psychologist that O’Reilly “was choking her mom or had his hands around her neck and dragged her down some stairs.”
The psychologist, Larry Cohen, also testified that the daughter told him that O’Reilly described McPhilmy as “an adulturer,” and described McPhilmy’s new husband as “not a good person.”
According to Cohen, the daughter said O’Reilly told him that, “if she spends her time or more time at the mother’s home, it will ruin her life.”
O’Reilly and McPhilmy divorced in September 2011 and originally agreed to split custody of the children.
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Whoa.
who cares?
I wonder more how old he was when he had the 12 year old/
my pop was 47. I think he beats that.
Can’t say I’m not surprised...he is scary...
Its all for the folks you know...
CAUTION: You’re about to enter a no speak zone.
Pretty hard to trust a kid's veracity at those ages.
About all I can say that it is now highly likely that the ex will now get some pretty damned big child support payments from him. I guess she filed for that the minute the ink was dry on this order.
They’re divorced? Impossible, because Trump is Catholic, right?
Agree.
BOR’s a liberal hack!
Bill is 66. She’s 49 (born May 11, 1966). He married her in 1996 when she was 29 and he was 46, and she had the first kid immediately thereafter.
I had a great grandfather that sired my grandmother when he was 57, and his wife was 46.
Correction: she had the daughter three years later.
A lot of states would have let the older child pick.
Me too! My father was 47, mother was 39. I was the tale end of the baby boomers.
Freudian slip perhaps? Actually, the way I understand it, you can get a civil divorce and remain Catholic. However the church will not recognize it if you remarry. Unless you get an annulment.
You’re right, I was just commenting on a Trump article.
What’s the difference, practically, between a divorce and an annulment?
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