Lisa Marie Presley’s Ex Husband Michael Lockwood Wins Full Custody Of Their Twin Daughters

Lisa Marie Presley‘s ex-husband Michael Lockwood was awarded afloat custody of their 14-year-old twins during a little tribunal proceeding successful Los Angeles connected Tuesday, March 14, the Daily Mail reports. Lisa, who died at the property of 54 connected Thursday, Jan. 12 successful a Los Angeles infirmary aft being treated for cardiac arrest, had been successful a years-long custody conflict implicit their duplicate girls, Harper and Finley, erstwhile she unexpectedly passed. The brace — who wed successful 2006 — divorced successful May 2021 aft respective years of separation.

California instrumentality states that erstwhile 1 genitor dies, the different is capable to clasp afloat custody of their children — truthful the ruling is nary surprise. No 1 successful the Presley household — including the twins’ grandma Pricilla Presley — petitioned Michael’s tribunal filing to get guardianship. He filed the documents successful the Los Angeles County Superior Court past week, per PEOPLE. He reasoned that it was successful his kids’ champion involvement due to the fact that “the insignificant is simply a beneficiary of a spot astatine contented earlier the probate tribunal successful the above-referenced case. The insignificant requires assignment of a guardian advertisement litem to correspond her interests successful the proceeding,” according to tribunal documents obtained by the outlet.

Lisa Marie Presley poses with her daughters (Photo: Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Harper and Finley’s half-sister Riley Keough, the 33-year-old girl of Lisa Marie and histrion Danny Keough, is livid that an ‘outsider’ has swooped successful to get guardianship implicit the girls, according to the Daily Mail.

Riley, who stars successful Amazon Prime’s brand new amusement Daisy Jones & The Six, has crushed to beryllium upset with Michael’s tribunal victory. He is reportedly aligned with 77-year-old Priscilla’s content that her daughter’s volition was invalid erstwhile she died. In a tribunal filing from January, the erstwhile woman of the precocious Elvis Presley submitted a petition disputing a 2016 amendment to her daughter’s will, which removed her and Lisa’s erstwhile concern manager, Barry Siegel, arsenic co-trustees. Riley and her member Benjamin Keough, who died successful 2020, replaced Barry and Priscilla.

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Lockwood were unneurotic for astir a decennary betwixt 2006 and 2016, though their divorcement was not finalized until 2021 (Photo: Gregorio T. Binuya/Everett Collection)

According to a idiosyncratic adjacent to the celebrated family, Riley and her grandma person stopped communicating owed to the ineligible battle. “It has been a precise tense and heartbreaking fewer weeks for some Riley and Priscilla. Riley has been mourning the nonaccomplishment of her parent and is heartbroken to person to woody with a spot quality with a household member,” the insider told Entertainment Tonight successful February. “Priscilla is adamant that she has a valid lawsuit and that she volition prevail successful court. Riley and Priscilla aren’t communicating astatine this time, but person been successful connection done lawyers.”

HollywoodLife reached retired to Michael’s lawyer and Priscilla’s typical for statements regarding the study but did not person an contiguous reply.

Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter to get the hottest celeb news.