19-year-old Levi Johnston is not going to disappear quietly into the night out of his son Tripp’s life. He’s going to stand up to Sarah Palin and her daughter, Bristol, and fight for his parental rights.

Levi announced,

“By the end of the year we’re gonna go to court for joint custody.  I’m just done with it….  When there’s a kid involved you ain’t walking away.”

Check out his interview below:

What do you think about the Palin’s trying to keep Tripp away from his dad?

For months now, we have read the headlines regarding the imprisonment of American Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. As a matter of fact, back in June of this year at the Step Up Women’s Network Inspiration Awards, I got to hear Laura Ling’s famous sister Lisa Ling, speak to a crowd of women regarding her family’s ordeal.

The Ling sisters.

With their mother in the audience, Lisa Ling described the anxiety and stress of her sisters impending trial in North Korea. Then, the time had come, the two journalists were sentenced to a labor camp and the world watched hopelessly. Many including myself wondered, how did this happen? What was the story behind these two courageous journalists who had been traveling various parts of the world covering news from all different angles?

I began to research and found out that both Laura and Euna were journalists for Current TV. While I was horrified that these were the circumstances under which I discovered Current TV, I was pleased to come across the website and learned more about the networks mission.

AP Photo/Yonhap, File

According to their site, “Current is a new breed of cross-platform media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute content that informs, enriches and inspires. We believe media should be a two-way conversation and our fully integrated broadcast and online platforms make that possible. Current TV and Current.com work together to connect young adults with what’s going on in their world through a unique blend of citizen journalism and viewer participation, offering programming and content that’s authentic, often surprising and consistently compelling. Our unique approach gives us exceptional results: more than one third of the programming on Current TV comes from viewers. Current’s award-winning programming ranges from the hottest trends in technology, fashion and music, to pressing issues such as the environment, finance and politics.”

After reading that, it’s no wonder that Laura Ling and Euna Lee were in China filming refugees along the border.

Image from http://current.com

All in all, Hollywire, along with the rest of the media community, is happy to welcome these two women home. And if you haven’t had a chance already and are looking for an interesting perspective on the news, be sure to check out http://current.com/

Its has been confirmed that Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, will retain custody of his children and Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of the two elder children, will visit and maintain her legal parental rights under an agreement reached by both sides.

Katherine and Debbie agreed to mutually hire a child psychologist to advise them on how, when and where Rowe’s visits should take place, a knowledgeable source said.

The agreement will go before a Los Angeles judge Monday, and both sides expect the judge to approve it, the source said. Rowe did not ask for custody. “Debbie is really happy” about the arrangement, said the source, refusing to be identified because the agreement has yet to be announced.

The source said Rowe did not receive any money under the arrangement and will pay half of the fees for the child psychologist.

Neither side made any demands that were rejected, the source said, and the arrangement was agreed to without contentious negotiation.

In his will, Jackson named his mother as guardian. Singer Diana Ross was listed as an alternative choice should his mother be unable to care for the children. Rowe has not seen the children in several years and at one time relinquished her parental rights. During a period when she had visitation, she complained that she was forced to meet the children in hotel rooms in the presence of Jackson’s associates and could not make up for visits she missed. After giving up her parental rights in 2001, Rowe went to court in 2003 to challenge that waiver. At the time, Jackson was facing child molestation charges. An appeals court ruled in her favor.

Such positive news in this time of sadness. At least now the children will be in a loving home and start to have a relationship with their mother.

Michael Jackson main wish for his children, if something were to happen to him was his children be kept away from his abusive father, Joe Jackson.

According to sources,

Michael talked so much about his kids.  He said he was doing his comeback concerts for them.  He hoped to give them financial security.

It was though he’d had a premonition of his own death.  The one thing he wanted – and insisted upon-was that his father Joe didn’t get anywhere near the kids.

I know the last thing he wanted was for Joe to play a part in the raising of his children if he died.  He told me, ‘ I don’t want him doing to them what he did to me.’

It has only been a couple of weeks since Jackson’s death and already Joe has his greedy little hands on his grandchildren.  Joe Jackson recently stated,

I keep watching Paris.  She maybe wants to do something.  And Blanket, he can really dance.

Joe is still legally married to Katherine, Michael’s mother and appointed guardian of his children, and even though they are separated it may still impact the courts decision to give Katherine custody of the children.

The court hearing for the custody case has been pushed back to allow more time for Katherine and the children’s biological mother, Debbie Rowe, to reach a custody arrangement out of court.

However, it is believed that Michael may have wanted Janet Jackson to get his kids.  A source says,

It is believed Michael named Janet to get custody on some papers.  He often said in the last two years, ‘Janet is the only sane person in my whole family.  She’s the only one who isn’t out for herself and actually cares about these kids.’

Such a sad situation when you can’t trust any family members to look out for your children’s best interest.  Joe only thought of Michael as a paycheck, why would it be any different with Michael’s children?

A Los Angeles County Superior Court finalized Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s custody agreement on Friday, July 25th. According to the court documents Britney will pay Kevin’s legal fees of $250,000, his child support payments will be increased from $15,000 to $20,000 a month and Britney will be granted more time with her kids.

Britney’s lawyer Laura Wasser said,

It was a victory for the whole family that they didn’t have to go to trial. I think they figured out a way to work together, to co-parent and make sure their kids will benefit from the results of that.

Kevin’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan stated,

The children are well adjusted. I only see them when they’re with Kevin. They are vibrant, happy, well-adjusted kids. Kevin is just delighted to have this ordeal over. He is greatly relieved and very happy this worked out.

Ummmm, ya, of course he is delighted, he was just awarded $250,000 in legal fees and $20,000 a month in child support. I would be delighted too. Now he has 16 1/2 years to figure out how to rap or find a new rich woman to have kids with.

Britney Spears has agreed to give Kevin Federline sole legal and physical custody of their two sons Jayden James and Sean Preston.

K-Fed’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan told E! News that,

The case has been settled.  As of this evening there is a fully executed deal memo…All the issues that would have been addressed at trial have been settled.

According to the agreement Kevin retains his sole legal and physical custody and Britney will continue to have visitation rights.  According to Kaplan, “Kevin was not [out] to get custody.  Kevin’s goal was to set up some kind of template so the mother of his children can coparent.”

Do either one of them parent at all?  The kids are always with their nannies.

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Today, Court Commissioner, Scott M. Gordon, refused to grant Britney any visitation rights with her two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

She hasn’t seen her babies in over a month now.  She is only allowed telephone contact with her boys–but come on, have you ever talked to a 2 year old and a 1 year old on the phone?  Not much can really happen when they don’t even understand what a phone is yet!

Given that lawyers on both K-Fed’s side and on Britney’s side both wanted some type of visitation to resume, you’ve gotta wonder in who’s best interest the commissioner and lawyers are acting upon?  Apparently both sides want Britney to be able to have visitation but couldn’t come to an agreement on all the details, so all custody matters have been dismissed until the next hearing scheduled for scheduled for March 10th–so, another 20 days until there’s even a possibility that she may be able to see her kids again–isn’t that enough to make any mother go insane!?!

K-Fed’s lawyers issued this statement, “Both sides want to see the day when visitation can renew and the question of working out the details of how that would be implemented will probably take some time, but hopefully not that much time, hopefully.  We are working to expedite that process, as it would be in the best interest of the boys.”  If they really thought it was that important you’d think they could’ve done something more than what they did do today–which was absolutely nothing….

The Commissioner also refused to put a gag order on the case even though Spears’ lawyers argued that the media and paparazzi are putting Spears in emotional and physical danger in their attempts to continually gain information…apparently Commissioner Gordon agreed that the aggressive access to the singer and her custody battle was a legitimate issue, but one that is not the courts responsibility…it’s up law enforcement and the press to deal with–ah, ya…like that’ll work–why do courts have the option for gag orders then???  Making he’s seeking his 15 minutes of fame?