Custody lawyer slams Madonna and Guy’s fighting

WHILE Madonna and Guy Ritchie feud over custody of son Rocco, lawyers say their bickering is weighing heavily on the teen.

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 25: Singer Madonna arrives at the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to host an after party for her Rebel Heart Tour concert stop on October 25, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for ABA)

MADONNA is demanding that her “stressed” out teenage son Rocco submit to an examination by a forensic psychologist as part of her custody battle with ​the boy’s father, ​her filmmaker ex-husband Guy Ritchie.

But a court-appointed attorney for the 15-year-old, who is living with his dad in London after flouting a judge’s order to return to his famous mum’s Manhattan townhouse, said his parents’ bickering is weighing on​ the kid.

“In almost every conversation he has stressed to me how stressful it is … to have this order over his head … to have the uncertainty,” said the law guardian, Ellen Sigal.

Rocco was not present for the Manhattan Supreme Court hearing.

​Neither were his parents, who telephoned in ​from abroad.

Madonna, Guy Richie and children Rocco and Lourdes back in 2007.

Ritchie’s lawyer, Peter Bronstein, accused Madonna of scuttling an agreement that would have settled the four-month-long custody fight when she “marked up” a 24-paragraph deal early Wednesday.

“It was not on point,” Mr Bronstein said of the changed agreement. “It had a number of differences which are extremely important to my client and I understand important to the child.”

Bronstein did not get into specifics about the pact.

But Madonna’s lawyer, Eleanor Alter, asked a judge to set a trial date and order a “forensic” report, in which a doctor would interview Rocco to evaluate whom he should live with.

Bronstein said Ritchie was reluctant to continue the court battle because it could be “emotionally disturbing to the relationship between the child and his parents.”

Madonna with Lourdes (9), Rocco (6) and 13-month old David Banda in 2006.

“He is now in school in London with the mother’s consent,” Bronstein said, but he added, “There’s a pall over the household, over Mr. Ritchie and his son.”

He asked Justice Deborah Kaplan to cancel her December order that required Rocco to come back to New York to live with his “Material Girl”​ mum.

“Rocco is of an age where he cannot be physically compelled on a plane to come back to New York because he doesn’t want to,” Mr Bronstein said.

Rocco’s lawyer requested the same thing.

Madonna has issued pleas to her son via social media.

“It’s been a very difficult time for him,” Rocco’s lawyer told the judge. “Having this order over his head … is very stressful for him … to have the uncertainty

“If there is some way you could ensure him that it’s not going to be enforced, I know that would help him to feel more comfortable.’’

But Madonna’s lawyer opposed the demand, and called Ritchie a bad parent.

Ritchie “taught his son that obeying court orders and signed agreements is not necessarily important,” Ms Alter said. “And I think that’s one of the most serious things that has happened in this case and is detrimental to Rocco.”

​Justice Kaplan said she was “extremely troubled” by the collapsed settlement.

But, she said, she wouldn’t cancel the order or enforc​​e it by declaring Ritchie in contempt of court and issuing a warrant for his arrest.

“I have not issued a warrant for Mr. Ritchie and at this point I’m not issuing a warrant for Mr. Ritchie,” Justice Kaplan said.

She urged ​Madonna and Ritchie to work toward a “global resolution that would … take this tremendous pressure off their son.”

She also set a trial date for June 1 if the negotiations collapse again.

Madonna and Ritchie divorced in 2009.

Madonna and Rocco pose for a recent Instagram snap. Picture: Madonna/Instagram

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is republished with permission.

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