Halle Berry relieved and happy child custody resolved

Calling it “a year full of challenges,” actress Halle Berry admitted that she was finally satisfied to be at the end of a lengthy child custody dispute with her ex-partner Gabriel Aubry. Berry and Aubry are the parents of a three-year-old girl and have been going rounds in family court since last May when the never-married couple split up.

Details of the couple’s custody arrangements weren’t revealed, but Berry confessed that “it is a relief when you can resolve things in a good way.” The actress said the tough times between the couple had nothing to do with one parent trying to take the child away from the other. She and Aubry had come to what Berry called an “impasse.”

That parental friction in the courtroom caused Berry to drop out of two events in the last year. One was a New Year’s Eve appearance and the other an opportunity to play opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the new Broadway show “Mountaintop.”

Berry did not mention if she regretted missing those events, although she did say it made her happy that the custody issues she and Aubry had were resolved with the help of the legal system. She credits the family court judge with helping the couple come up with a workable solution that was in the best interests of their daughter.

The new co-parenting plan between the actress and Aubry was not an easy one to hammer out, according to Berry, although she seemed pleased with the results. The actress said, “For her sake, this is the best way. We both love her more than life.”

Source: UKPA, “Halle’s happy custody resolution,” 4/21/2011