Two weeks ago, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s divorce was bifurcated and they were declared legally single. They still have to work out various financial things – which are relatively minor, because they kept their businesses and finances separate during the marriage – and they still have to work out custody. It seems like Kanye is determined to “work out” the custody issues in public, on his Instagram, by telling the world what school his kids attend and constantly attacking his kids’ mother. I should mention that Kanye fought the bifurcation too – he was desperate to keep throwing up roadblocks, anything to slow-walk divorce proceedings. That alone should tell you that he’s going to draw out the custody fight as long as possible. He will do that to punish and control Kim, because that’s what all of this is about. He’s attacking Kim using their children. Anyway, TMZ had an interesting update:

Kanye West has now lawyered up to handle custody issues in his divorce, and we’re told this will end up before a judge, unless he reaches some agreement with Kim Kardashian. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, Kanye’s lawyer, Samantha Spector, is making custody job #1. As we reported, Kanye groused over the weekend again that Kim is not letting him see their kids when he wants.

That’s certainly not the way Kim sees it … she has welcomed her ex-husband’s involvement in their kids’ lives and wants him to spend time with their 4 children, and claimed he picked them up for school Monday.

What’s more … our sources say Kanye’s spent 3 days with the kids in the last week — the first time he’s been in L.A. since the Super Bowl. Kanye also had 3 of the kids with him at the Donda 2 event in Miami last month — we’re told Kim kept North in L.A. because she had a test at school she’d been studying for that she didn’t want to miss — so Kim made school the priority.

Here’s the issue. Up until now, there has been no formal arrangement for custody. They have tried working it out amongst themselves. When Kanye’s in town and wants to see the kids, she’s game, unless the kids are in the middle of something else. But, there’s clearly a conflict, and it’s getting worse. We’re told Spector will first try to establish something more formal between Kim and Kanye, but if that doesn’t happen she’ll go to court and ask a judge to impose ground rules for custody and visitation.

Here’s the rub. Kanye travels frequently outside of L.A., and it’s hard to formalize a custody arrangement when schedules keep changing.

As we reported, Kim has been doing everything she can to keep things peaceful, but Kanye’s so angry over her relationship with Pete Davidson as well as custody issues, the notion of reaching an out-of-court agreement seems unlikely.

Our sources say Kim and Kanye are hardly speaking to each other and haven’t for quite a while, and that makes reaching an agreement all the more difficult.

[From TMZ]

For months after Kim filed for divorce, Kim and Kanye weren’t talking. Their teams would communicate and everything was coordinated with third parties. Then Kim made the effort to try to be more accommodating to Kanye last summer… for their children’s sake. And he mistook that for “we should reconcile and forget the divorce.” And Kim was like “lol no.” And she started up with Pete, and that’s the cycle we’ve been in ever since. My gut says that if Kanye and his latest lawyer go to court to get a firm custody schedule, Kim is prepared for that. And then some. At least I hope so.

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