Jim Edmonds has shared a photograph of himself and his three kids after being temporarily awarded custody of the youngsters.
Taking to his Instagram Story on Friday, November 28, Edmonds, 55, shared a family snap together with his daughter Aspen, 9, and twin sons, Hart and Hayes, each 7, all of whom he shares together with his ex-wife, Meghan King. The photo also featured Edmonds’ current wife Kortnie. He captioned it, “Plenty of love.”
The post comes after Us Weekly broke the news on November 19 that King, 41, had temporarily lost custody of the three children following an investigation by Child Protective Services.
Multiple sources told Us earlier this month that King retained supervised visitation rights, but Edmonds has sole physical custody of the three children. The choice is temporary pending a hearing — scheduled for December — to find out whether the custody arrangement will turn into everlasting.
King and Edmonds married in 2014 before splitting in 2019. The previous couple made headlines in 2022 when King filed for a short lived restraining order. Within the legal paperwork, she alleged that Edmonds exhibited “frequent and consistent verbal abuse” toward her virtually and on their court-monitored coparenting app, Our Family Wizard.
“This request for an order of protection is totally baseless and moreover makes an absolute mockery of the pain suffered by the thousands and thousands of ladies on this country who’re legitimate victims of abuse,” said Edmonds’ rep, Steve Honig.
In May this 12 months, police were called to Edmonds’ home after King allegedly entered the house he shares with wife Kortnie without permission. King told cops that Edmonds was “emotionally abusive” toward her, which he denied in an announcement to Us in September.
Jim Edmonds and Meghan King. (Photo courtesy of Meghan King/ Instagram)
“As usual, Meghan is telling tales. Her and Jim barely communicate, so if someone is emotionally abusing her, it’s not Jim,” a spokesperson claimed. “Jim is an energetic and present father to all his children. The unlucky a part of all that is that it’s the children who are suffering probably the most. Jim has at all times been willing to coparent in a respectful and productive way, nevertheless Meghan has yet to reciprocate.”
Through the years, the pair has been open about their difficulties with navigating coparenting challenges.
King exclusively told Us Weekly in February that she and Edmonds struggle to coparent in an amicable manner.
“I don’t know what coparenting is. … In an effort to coparent, you have got to speak right?” she told Us on the time. “Yeah, so that might be a very good start. … I don’t think [the kids] prefer it. I don’t think they know any different, but I don’t think they prefer it either. I wish we could discuss things about our youngsters, but we will’t.”
Two years prior to her coparenting admission, King shared that she had never “envisioned” her family unit being separated.
“’Families are created out of unconditional love,’ I assumed. ‘Two parents weather life’s storms but at all times remain together to rejoice the next rainbows,’ I assumed,” she wrote via a candid Instagram post in May 2020. “But that is just not my story and that makes me feel deeply regretful — like I failed my children by not giving them a family unit. But today I’m refusing to dwell on mistakes and s**tty situations I can’t control; today I control my response.
She concluded, “I miss my stepkids who made me a mother before I had children of my very own and I’m sending them a lot love. I miss my freedom. And I mourn the lack of what could’ve been. But despite this I have a look at my beautiful tribe with pride because I’m a mother to a few incredible kids and I’m the just one they’ve got.”