Jim Edmonds has shared a heartwarming photo with his three children after being temporarily awarded custody.
On Friday, November 28, the 55-year-old took to his Instagram Story to post a family snapshot featuring his daughter Aspen, 9, and his twin sons, Hart and Hayes, 7 all of whom he shares with his ex-wife, Meghan King. The photo also included Edmonds’ current wife, Kortnie, and he captioned it simply: “Lots of love.”
The post comes after Us Weekly reported on November 19 that Meghan King, 41, had temporarily lost custody of the three children following a Child Protective Services investigation.
Multiple sources told Us Weekly earlier this month that King retains supervised visitation rights, while Edmonds has sole physical custody of the children. The arrangement is temporary, pending a hearing in December to determine whether the custody decision will become permanent.
King and Edmonds, who married in 2014 and split in 2019, have had a high-profile co-parenting relationship. The former couple made headlines in 2022 when King filed for a temporary restraining order, alleging that Edmonds engaged in “frequent and consistent verbal abuse” via virtual communication and their court-monitored co-parenting app, Our Family Wizard.
Edmonds’ representative, Steve Honig, called the restraining order request “completely baseless” and said it “makes an absolute mockery of the pain suffered by the millions of women in this country who are legitimate victims of abuse.”
In May of this year, police were called to Edmonds’ home after King allegedly entered the residence he shares with wife Kortnie without permission. King told police officers that Edmonds had been “emotionally abusive,” a claim he denied in a statement to Us Weekly in September.
A spokesperson for Edmonds responded to the allegations, saying, “As usual, Meghan is telling tales. She and Jim barely communicate, so if someone is emotionally abusing her, it’s not Jim. Jim is an active and present father to all his children. The unfortunate part of all this is that it’s the kids who suffer the most. Jim has always been willing to co-parent in a respectful and productive way; however, Meghan has yet to reciprocate.”
Over the years, the former couple has been open about the challenges of co-parenting.
In February, King exclusively told Us Weekly that she and Edmonds struggle to maintain an amicable co-parenting relationship.
“I don’t know what co-parenting is… In order to co-parent, you have to communicate, right?” she said. “Yeah, so that would be a good start… I don’t think [the kids] like it. I don’t think they know any different, but I don’t think they like it either. I wish we could discuss things about our children, but we can’t.”
Two years before admitting struggles with co-parenting, Meghan King reflected on her unexpected family situation, sharing that she had never “envisioned” her family being separated.
“Families are created out of unconditional love,” she wrote in a candid Instagram post in May 2020. “Two parents weather life’s storms but always remain together to celebrate the subsequent rainbows. But that is not my story, and that makes me feel deeply regretful like I failed my children by not giving them a nuclear family. Today, I am refusing to dwell on mistakes and situations I can’t control; today I control my reaction.”
King concluded, “I miss my stepkids, who made me a mother before I had children of my own, and I am sending them so much love. I miss my freedom. And I mourn the loss of what could’ve been. But despite this, I look at my beautiful tribe with pride, because I am a mother to three incredible kids, and I’m the only one they’ve got.”
