Michael Jackson's mother is given custody of children · 2009-08-04 13:52
Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine, was granted permanent custody of the singer’s three children Monday, ending one of the court battles that had been brewing since the pop star’s death.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved the agreement reached last week by attorneys for Katherine Jackson and Debbie Rowe, mother of the two older children, in which the children will be raised by their grandmother and Rowe keeps visitation and legal parental rights, Los Angeles Times reports.
The late pop icon had said in his 2002 will that his mother should care for Prince Michael Jr., 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11, and his youngest child, Prince Michael II, 7, known as Blanket, who was carried by a surrogate.
According to People, Katherine Jackson gave a terse update on Michael’s children. “The children are doing fine,” she said.
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