It’s an emotional second for Jenelle Evans. More than a decade after handing over her parental rights to her mother, Barbara Evans, the 31-year-old former Teen Mom 2 actuality star was granted full custody of her 13-year-old son Jace.
Jenelle shared the information in an announcement to Us Weekly on Saturday, saying she and her mom “decided together to grant full custody back to me because we want to build our relationship back as mother and daughter.” And it’s already official! The MTV persona, who shares Jace with ex Andrew Lewis, revealed to the outlet that they signed the papers on March 16, saying:
“Also, my mother agrees it’s time for Jace to be back with his siblings and living with a mother and father. She also thinks it’s important for Jace to be around a father figure to learn ‘boy things’ and have ‘men talk.’ She has seen the way David parents my children and she knows we’re able to handle it. We want to all get along for the sake of the children and like I said before, building back our relationship as mother and daughter. We have officially signed the papers on Thursday, March 16th at the courthouse, it’s a done deal!”
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Jenelle additionally shares an 8-year-old son named Kaiser along with her ex-boyfriend Nathan Griffith and a 6-year-old daughter Ensley along with her husband David Eason. The couple beforehand misplaced custody of their kids for round a yr and had been fired from Teen Mom 2 after David shot and killed their household’s canine in April 2019 as a result of it bit their daughter. Despite their troubling historical past, her supervisor August Keen instructed Us Weekly on Saturday that her and David’s relationship is steady proper now:
“Jenelle and David are definitely together and things between them are great. They’re a happy family and they are completely fine.”
Following her interview with the outlet, Janelle took to TikTok to share an emotional video of her signing the paperwork to develop into Jace’s official guardian once more. And on the finish of the video, she may very well be seen sitting within the automobile with tears working down her face as she held up the paperwork to the digicam. The momma then wrote within the caption:
“ITS OFFICIAL! Thanks everyone for the support! Words cant descibe how happy i truly am. Our family is complete now! Thank you mom.”
@jenellelevans ITS OFFICIAL! Thanks everybody for the assist! ✨❤️ Words cant descibe how comfortable i really am. Our household is full now! Thank you mother.
For those that don’t know, Jenelle and Barbara have had a strained relationship for years resulting from their disagreement over Jace’s custody. After he was born in 2009, she gave authorized custody to her mother. Over the years whereas filming Teen Mom 2, viewers noticed the relations combat over the association – with Jenelle usually slamming Barbara for not letting her assist father or mother him. The writer’s struggles with substance abuse and tumultuous relationships solely created extra stress between her and her mother, in addition to harm her relationship with Jace. Despite finally engaged on herself, Barbara and Jenelle continued to combat out and in of court docket over custody of her son.
Before her wedding ceremony in 2017, Jenelle instructed Us Weekly she refused to ask her mom to the ceremony since she didn’t wish to surrender custody of Jace:
“I can’t forgive someone that’s just not going to give me back my son, so, and it’s still going on. It hasn’t been resolved. And if I had custody of him now maybe I would have invited her, but I’m not at the moment.”
But issues appear totally different now! It’s good to see these two work issues out and wish to enhance their mom/daughter relationship transferring ahead. Reactions, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback under.
[Image via Jenelle Evans/TikTok, MTV/YouTube]