Custody negotiations postponed
It is still not clear who gets custody of Michael Jackson’s three children.

Children’s grandmother, Katherine Jackson, and the two oldest children’s mother, Deborah Rowe, trying to agree on a private solution.

Katherine Jackson, 79, and Deborah “Debbie” Rowe, 50, have jointly requested that the negotiations be postponed for a week. Today, their request was granted by a court.

The two are now trying to agree on a solution without the involvement of the courts.

In the meantime, Katherine Jackson temporary custody of the three orphaned children.

“Children’s best”
“We are delighted that the custody hearing was postponed to July 20 so that we can continue to resolve this very important issue on their own and in a friendly spirit and in a dignified way for the children’s best and for everyone involved,” according to L . Londell McMillan, Katherine Jackson’s lawyer to the AP.

But both Rowe and her lawyer declines to comment on the postponement of the hearing.

Rowe has been in an interview said that she intends to seek custody of the two oldest children, who are her biological children. She said also that she is willing to take care of the youngest child, who is born of an unknown surrogate mother.

But she has not submitted such a request to the court.

Rowe excluded
In his will signed 2002, Michael Jackson wrote that his mother would get custody of his children if he would die. If it was not possible, singer Diana Ross should become guardians of the three children Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7. Debbie Rowe was not included in the will at all.

Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe married in 1996, Rowe filed for divorce three years later when she gave up custody of the children. Later, a court of appeal found that it was not legally valid, but Rowe and Jackson made their own agreement in 2006.