This is a pretty bizarre legal strategy.
Parents abandon
The drama between Elon Musk and his former lover, artist Claire “Grimes” Boucher, has taken a dire turn.
As Insider reports based on court documents obtained by the medium, the electronic music star has tried no less than a dozen times to hand Musk custody papers for their three children – without success.
From the fact that they have three children together to avoiding legal paperwork, Grimes and Musk’s relationship seems to have been pretty troubled for some time. This part of the saga began back in September, when the artist claimed in a now-deleted tweet that Musk wouldn’t let her see her son X Æ A-Xii, or X for short.
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Things got even worse (and weirder) last month when it was revealed that Grimes was suing the billionaire father of 11 in an attempt to “settle down.” [her] “The parental relationship” with their three ended after he allegedly took them out of the state of California [her] Insider reported that this lawsuit appeared to be in response to Musk’s September lawsuit in which he accused Boucher of moving to California to “avoid” the Texas family courts.
This situation now appears to have escalated further, as Grimes’ lawyers have filed supplementary evidence alleging that the people she hired were unable to personally serve custody papers on Musk in 12 instances.
According to the new documents, these process servers attempted to reach the mercurial figure at the headquarters of X – formerly Twitter – and Tesla, and even at the home of Shivon Zilis, the Neuralink executive with whom Musk had two other children. He has not yet responded to Boucher’s legal overtures, she says.
One of the people hired to look after Musk’s papers even tried to track him down at a horse farm he owns in Texas, Insider said.
“Nope, not here,” a woman who works on the premises reportedly told the process server.
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Boucher’s people ultimately left the documents with Musk’s security – and as California family law attorney Christopher Melcher told Insider, the use of process servers is acceptable in the case of a person as famous as Musk.
“None of these security guards had any intention of letting the process server in,” Melcher told the website. “They could have come 100 times.”
Anyone who has ever dealt with custody battles knows how ugly they can be, but avoiding the noncustodial parent in multiple places and on a dozen occasions seems completely unattainable.
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