“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star, Camille Grammer, and her former husband, Kelsey Grammer, who married his girlfriend Kayte Walsh less than a week after getting a divorce in February of 2011, have just started a very ugly legal battle for the custody of two children (6 year-old boy Jude and 9 year-old girl Mason).

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According to sources, Camille was ready to share legal and physical custody (50/50) of the kids with Kelsey, but the actor had other plans in mind. He reportedly filed for joint legal custody, but sole physical custody of the kids, who have not been dealing well with his father’s departure and new family.

Camille was shocked to learn he wanted to keep the kids when the kids want to live with their mommy in LA. The real housewife thinks he can’t get sole custody since Kelsey “abandoned his family and fathered a child out of wedlock … which speaks volumes about his parenting.”

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There is more: Kelsey apparently only wants his son to live with him in Chicago, and plans to leave his daughter, who reportedly has learning problems, to stay with her mom in California. Kelsey denied the accusations, but there are legal documents proving he is a liar.

In a letter sent to Camille’s lawyer dated April 29, 2011, “Kelsey proposes … Kelsey shall have primary physical custody of Jude and Camille shall have primary physical custody of Mason.”

Kelsey is planning to enroll his son Jude in a Chicago school, while Camille just filed for the primary physical custody of the kids because she doesn’t want to keep them apart.

Kelsey’s rep, Stan Rosenfield, told TMZ, “Despite the fact that those connected with Camille Grammer seem to be hand delivering confidential documents to TMZ and other media outlets, we will continue not to make public statements about their private matters which can and apparently does beg for misinterpretation. There is no valid reason to drag the Grammer children into any media spotlight.”

Separating the kids is not really a good idea. I know some very successful cases of divorced parents who divided custody of their children that way, but they lived close enough for sibling, mom and dad to be a part of both of the kids’ lives. This is a difficult situation, but it would be a lot easier if Kelsey and Camille were both a bit more open to an amicable agreement.

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