Turner is suing Jonas for “wrongful retention” of their kids and says she only knew he filed for divorce through the media.
Sophie Turner is suing her estranged husband, singer Joe Jonas, over the alleged “wrongful retention” of their two children after he refused to hand over their passports.
The couple revealed earlier this month that they were going their separate ways after the “breakdown of the marriage happened very suddenly,” according to Turner’s lawsuit.
She also claimed to have learned through the media that Jonas had filed for divorce and that was four days after he actually filed in Florida. The lawsuit claimed the couple had an argument on August 15 and their marriage went downhill from there.
Turner’s lawyers filed the lawsuit in New York’s Southern District on Thursday where they invoked the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction for the alleged “wrongful retention” of the couple’s two children, Willa, three, and DJ, 14 months.
The couple decided the children would stay with Jonas in the U.S. during August while he was on tour with his band, The Jonas Brothers, as Turner was working on a “very intense” shoot in England. That meant the children had time with at least “one of their parents” during the day while they were awake and a nanny to look after them at other times.
