LOS ANGELES (AP) – A court order that granted actress Kelly Rutherford temporary custody of her children to allow her to bring them back to Los Angeles from Monaco was halted Thursday.
Judge Maren E. Nelson, who presides over family law courts in Los Angeles, issued the ruling over concerns that Rutherford’s former husband violated terms of a 2013 custody order that allowed the children to live abroad.
Rutherford, who starred in “Melrose Place” and “Gossip Girl,” has accused ex-husband Daniel Giersch of preventing her from seeing their children, which he denies. But a summary of a hearing where Rutherford got custody last week didn’t specify how Giersch may have violated the 2013 order.
His lawyer, Fahi Takesh Hallin, filed documents showing that a Monaco court now has jurisdiction over the children and claimed that Rutherford “made fraudulent statements, and lied and made misrepresentations by omission” to gain the temporary custody order.
A call to Rutherford’s attorney, David J. Glass, was not immediately returned Friday.