The custody battle rages on. According to court documents, Angelina Jolie claims three of her children wanted to testify against her ex-husband and their father Brad pitt in their bitter and continuous battle for custody.

Divorced couple, who split in 2016, share children Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14 years old and twins Vivienne and Knox, 12. Only minor children are subject to custody. It is not known which of the minors expressed their desire to testify against their 57-year-old father.

A court document dated December 2020 indicates that Jolie’s legal team said that “three of the children have requested to testify” in the ongoing custody proceedings.

In a statement, humanitarian lawyers explained that “the children in custody are old enough to understand what is going on. The trial is bound to impact them emotionally.”

“To make one of the children endure what can be a futile and null procedure is more than unjustified,” the statement continued. “It’s cruel.”

This follows the revelation that the 46-year-old actress, along with her legal team, “filed the documents in her effort to disqualify Judge John Ouderkirk to rule on the case. The judge was first summoned because the estranged couple wanted “a private judge to keep the details of the case sealed.”

But as recently as August 2020, Jolie claimed that “the judge is in jeopardy because of the business and professional relationship he has with one of Pitt’s lawyers.” and that if he is not dismissed “she will appeal a finalized decision taken by Ouderkirk in the case”.

Unfortunately for the movie star, the judge was retained on the case. Her legal team claimed that keeping Judge Ouderkirk on her “created a bad situation in which the children sought to speak up and say what they thought of the case.”

Like okay! Previously reported in May, the actress filed a complaint with the California Second District Court of Appeals over the judge’s decision to grant her ex-husband custody of their five minor children, claiming that she was “denied a fair trial” important evidence was excluded from the case.

A source explained, “Witnesses, experts, people who have been with the children. The children’s voices were heard, but they just did not testify themselves.” Still, there is a California law that states that “any child at least 14 years old should be allowed to weigh and indicate custody preference.”