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Mama June Shannon has won custody of her granddaughter Kaitlyn successful the aftermath of the December 2023 decease of Mama June's girl Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell.
Mama June Shannon Gets Temporary Custody Of Anna Cardwell's Daughter
Mama June Shannon has been granted a ineligible victory.
The 44-year-old has been given custody of her 12-year-old granddaughter Kailtyn after fighting a lengthy tribunal conflict against her erstwhile son-in-law Michael Cardwell in the aftermath of her daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s December 2023 decease from signifier 4 adrenal carcinoma.
Michael, who is not Kaitlyn’s biologic begetter and began dating Anna erstwhile Kaitlyn was 8 months old, filed for custody of Kaitlyn pursuing Anna’s death. But according to tribunal documents obtained by People, Mama June was granted custody aft the Georgia justice ruled that Michael had not provided “any important fiscal support” for Kaitlyn successful the past year.
According to the tribunal documents, a household therapist testified that Kaitlyn “fears being taken away” from Mama June adding that the insignificant “expressed a tendency to stay” with her grandmother.
Michael—who is begetter to Anna’s youngest daughter Kylee, 8—has "no right" to visitation of Kaitlyn unless Mama June and Kaitlyn some agree, per the ruling.
During the ineligible proceedings, Mama June accused Michael of being “abusive” toward Anna during their marriage, per tribunal documents obtained by InTouch.
Michael denied the allegations done his attorney, who released a connection to InTouch, saying, “Michael denies these allegations. This is the archetypal clip that immoderate of these allegations person been made against him. He and Anna had a large narration erstwhile they were joined and simply separated owed to differences successful opinions and personalities."
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Prior to her death, Anna expressed her wishes that her hubby Eldridge Toney, who began dating Anna successful 2017 aft her divorcement from Michael, gain custody of some of her daughters aft they tied the knot successful March 2023.
However, Mama June said successful an occurrence of her show, Mama June: Family Crisis, earlier this summer, "Kaitlyn volition beryllium amended disconnected with me, due to the fact that determination is stability. But Eldridge has been successful Kaitlyn's beingness since she was astir 5 years old. Honestly, she needs to enactment this s--- connected paper."
Back successful June, Mama June opened up astir caring for Kaitlyn aft being awarded temporary custody of the minor.
"We took connected the work of an 11-year-old—making definite that she gets to schoolhouse and making definite that we marque beingness arsenic mean arsenic we tin for her," Mama June told E! News successful an exclusive interview astatine the time. "Also conscionable getting into a regular ourselves and trying to support the consistency with Kaitlyn due to the fact that that's what she needs—structure and consistency."
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