Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have signed off on their divorce more than eight years after the actress initially filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
According to California family lawyer Scott Weston, who does not represent either party, the length of time this took is “absolutely” not the norm — and several factors likely contributed.
For one, Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 61, who wed in 2014 and share six children, did not see eye to eye from the outset, setting the stage for a drawn-out showdown in what Weston calls “probably the most congested superior court in the country.”
Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, citing irreconcilable differences and asked for physical custody of Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18 and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, who were all minors at the time.
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