Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Went from ‘Domestic Bliss’ to Divorce: Inside Their Ongoing Multi-Year Legal Feud
It was a seemingly perfect family in a picture-perfect magazine feature.
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New York matrimonial and family law attorney Sophie Jacobi-Parisi, who is not affiliated with either Pitt or Jolie’s legal matters, told CNN a bifurcated divorce is “unique” to California divorces in that it allows former couples to “break the bonds of matrimony” while other issues – be they financial or otherwise – remain outstanding. But it can sometimes have a detrimental effect on proceedings, she added, because it may remove “incentive to keep people rational,” further prolonging the time it takes to finalize a divorce.
The slow pace of the divorce proceedings, even after the bifurcated judgement, is “unusual,” according to Jacobi-Parisi.
“It’s all of these unique little situational aspects of this that have completely exacerbated a super high-conflict divorce from the very beginning – and they both have the money to fight,” she said.
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These NDAs have become the center of the Miraval case, which in itself has felt like “an extension of their divorce,” according to Jacobi-Parisi, who clarified that the Miraval case and the divorce are technically separate court actions.
Jacobi-Parisi added: “Under the Miraval court action, [the NDAs] can then bring up and dredge up all of the information that was probably sealed in their divorce.”
In other words, there may be more to come before Jolie and Pitt truly close this chapter and find their bliss, domestic or otherwise.
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"Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Went from ‘Domestic Bliss’ to Divorce: Inside Their Ongoing Multi-Year Legal Feud," by Alli Rosenbloom was published in CNN on June 20, 2024.