The British director, Guy Ritchie, who split from Madonna last month after nearly eight years of marriage, has employed Stephen Cobb QC, a specialist in divorce cases involving the residency of children. Madonna, 50, is said to be keen to take the couple’s son Rocco, eight, their adopted son David Bana, three, and her 12-year-old daughter Lourdes to live in New York, but Guy is adamant they must continue living and being educated in the UK. A source said, "There are only a handful of barristers who specialise in leave-to-remove applications and he is the best in that area." Madonna has hired Fiona Shackleton, who represented Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney in their divorce cases, to act for her. It had been hoped the pair would be able to settle their divorce as a mediation hearing, but that is not looking less and less...
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