Family Law

Charlie Sheen Files for Divorce (again)

By guest-writer

Charlie Sheen, the star of the wildly popular ?Two and a Half Men?, has filed for divorce to end his third marriage earlier this week. Sheen and actress Brooke Mueller Sheen have been separated since a Christmas 2009 altercation that resulted in assault charges against the famous comedic actor.

Sheen and Mueller were married in May of 2008 and have twin sons together.

The timing of Sheen?s divorce filing is surprising, as it is less than one week after Sheen was hospitalized in New York after causing a ruckus in a luxury hotel in New York City, according to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune.

In his divorce filing, Sheen cited irreconcilable difference.  The divorce, filed in Los Angeles, indicates that the couple did have a prenuptial agreement.  Sheen is seeking joint custody of the twins, but is requesting to not have to pay any spousal support to his wife.

Mueller Sheen quickly filed her own petition for divorce and is seeking sole custody of the twins as well as spousal support.

The two seem to disagree on a lot, but both parties agree that the Christmas day altercation in 2009 was the date of separation.

After the altercation on Christmas, Sheen, 45, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault in Aspen, Colorado.  The prosecutors reportedly dropped more serious charges and the star was able to avoid jail time.  Instead, Sheen had 30 days in a rehabilitation center, 30 days of probation and 36 hours of anger management.

When police showed up to the scene, Brooke Sheen said that she told her husband that she wanted a divorce, at which point Sheen threatened to kill her and brandished a knife.  Sheen admitted an argument and said that he was upset that she had told him she wanted a divorce, but denied that he threatening her or that he brandished a knife.

On the 26^th of October, Sheen was hospitalized after security guards at the Plaza Hotel in New York City reporting that the star was acting disorderly and breaking furniture in his room.  According to reports, Sheen appeared intoxicated at 1:30 in the morning, and the woman with Sheen said that the two had been out drinking and partying that night.

It seems that one bad situation barely has enough time to end before a new one begins for the perennial Hollywood actor.  It seems unlikely that either of these two recent events will have an adverse impact on the star’s career.

Maybe this last incident, linked so closely to his divorce, will be enough for this celebrity to get his life on track once and for all.  Only time will be able to tell.

Full post as published by The Divorce Blog on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).