: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for R&B singer Bobby Brown asked a California judge on Friday to throw out his divorce from Whitney Houston and reopen the question of custody over the couple's 14 year-old daughter.
"He did not have his day in court," Brown's attorney Stacy Phillips told the Orange County Superior Court.
The uncontested divorce judgment, which became final in April, ended the couple's stormy 15-year marriage, and Houston got sole custody of daughter Bobbin Kristin Brown.
Phillips said Brown believed the pair were working on their marriage and that Houston had told him not to worry about the divorce proceedings. She said the two had made an agreement.
"Who is he going to rely on the most?" Phillips said. "The woman he loves. He thinks they're working on their marriage."
Houston moved from Atlanta to Orange County, south of Los Angeles, when the couple split last year and she went into drug rehab for the third time in three years.
Brown has a history of arrests for failure to pay child support, drug possession and drunk driving. Houston's lawyer said Brown could appeal or vary the custody award without throwing out the divorce.
Judge Claudia Silas said she would have to listen to testimony from both singers before deciding the issue, and she set a hearing for October 22.
Lawyers for both sides must decide whether the estranged couple can testify by video or should appear in person.
HIS CRQACKHEAD AZZ DIDN'T THING HE WAS WORKING ON HIS MARRIAGE. HE WAS EITHER ONE OF TWO THINGS. 1) HE WAS HIGH AS HELL GIRL (IN MADEA VOICE) AND 2) HE THANK HE GOTS ALL DA SENSE IN WHICH HE STILL AIN'T GONNA GET NO CUSTODY OF A DEAP GOLDFISH, YET ALONG A CHILD!!!!! BOBBY, GET OVER IT, YOU ARE WHACK AND WHITNEY IS BACK!!!!!
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I know just how special is Bobby Kristina, he aint fighting over the rest of his other kids with various woman. I guess those kids are more of a liability than an investment as is his daughter with Whiteny. I think she is better off with her crazy mother than she is with Bobby. I hope the judge does right by that poor lil girl caught up in this mess
LOL @Teekay
He not fight over his other kids becuz he and his other baby mother(s) are going toward the same goal: That Goal is to get Whitney's money! LOL! Thats where he was gettin money from to help him pay his child support! But Whitney got a tight grip on Bobbi Kris, so now Bobby might have to go elsewhere for his money for them kids! He could ask Superhead, she made a killing off of her book!
Another sad story of the king of r&b and diva of divas....just pray for them. I prayed to God that one day Whitney would leave Bobby because he was tearing her down. Although she was a grown woman and had a mind of her own and no one made her smoke crack, etc. God allows things to happen for something else to happen, and we know that sometimes we can't control certain things in our lives, that's why we pray and keep holding on (believing for what you are praying for). It's real!!!
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