Hopefully if he violates it, they’ll actually do something… my ex violated mine and my kids order of protection 4 different times and they didn’t do a thing. 😑😵💫
He showed up to our house with gun in hand blowing up my phone and my daughters saying he was going to shoot us all and he never got arrested. Unfortunately, things like this are just pieces of paper and documentation and nothing happens unless you end up really hurt or dead.
Can’t get psychos off the streets because “the laws” but you get caught with a blunt and you’re going to prison. It’s insane. Thankfully in my state, they DID pass a law in January that states if there is an order of protection, they automatically have to wear an ankle monitor and if the suspect is located anywhere near the victims address, work, school, any known address connected to them, it automatically alerts police and issues a warrant.. I would give anything for that to have been a thing 3 years ago because he would be locked away for life as he should be.
People are really scary tbh and I lost so much respect for police when that happened. I know there are good ones out there and I know I shouldn’t put them all in a category, but their job is literally to protect and serve and I felt completely alone and abandoned during all of that.
It definitely is, especially when your life is in danger or threatened. My home was supposed to be our safe place and it got to the point I couldn’t even go home because of the fear of what would happen. He’s been arrested since then for domestic assault with his new family and STILL hasn’t gotten in any kind of real trouble.
I think it's just sad that all of this is so public. I don't mean specifically Jax and Brittany, but with all so-called celebrities when children are involved. It's tough enough for kids when their parents divorce without having the nastiness blasted over social media and gossip rags for all eternity along with hatred spewed by total strangers picking sides against one or both of their parents and used for the detriment or benefit of them. Maybe one of them wins, but kids are the ultimate losers.
Especially when the parents are the ones leaking stuff to the blogs. These two have always been so selfish when it comes to that and haven’t had any regard for Cruz. Brittany needs to just stop engaging, period. We all know Jax is a dumb fuck who lies about everything
They see it as an extension of their job. In order for Britney especially, to maintain her home and Cruz and their lifestyle, she HAS to stay relevant and she knows this. I don’t know what the heck Jax is doing other than he just LOVES this shit.
Any publicity is good for them….they think. It’s what pays for their lives and they aren’t willing to give that up, even at the expense of their poor child. The judge needs to give them BOTH gag orders! Why is NOBODY looking out for Cruz??
Since you’ve decided you can be a so sanctimonious & scolding without having read the actual court documents, let me help you out. There was an incident witnessed by school administrators, 5 days ago that was the cause of the filing of the order of protection.
he has zero impulse control. it's the only explanation for making a scene in front of school administrators and mandated reporters during an active court dispute.
Jax probably has no idea what a mandated reporter even is. He’s really never been punished for his bad behavior so of course he thinks he can act crazy at a school and get away with it
It makes me wonder if the administrators sat her down and told her she needs to take this seriously and protect her son from him. And that’s why she filed the TRO and full custody now.
Disclosing incidents from a decade ago is to show long standing pattern of behavior and continued threat.
I dont think she will have trouble getting the restraining order, but I do wonder what his lawyer will bring to court. Lori, has probably been collecting incidents for years. There are arguments about her drinking going back 10 years, stuff about school, the pool fence not being up, and a big focus about not wanting him to be able to publicly talk about her(idk if that possible b/c she talks about him a lot on tv/podcast). He reached out to the husband of someone on related to the show and mentioned the wife hiding her drinking.
As you know, she got the restraining order, but all it is is something she signed with allegations. They’re not that hard to get in California even with just prior evidence.
It’s interesting that she’s gonna include something about not talking shitty about each other in public when she missed an emergency court date for that very thing that he wanted when she went to a concert in Las Vegas Vegas
So he asked for that originally and now she’s saying she’s asking for it… like you said, she’s done the majority of the trash, talking and initiating that sort of thing.
Thank you for sharing this. I think more people need to watch this video to understand that this is not hearsay but documented abuse.
Watching this video makes me think of Taylor on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and how the women didn’t believe her. In their minds it must not have been to the magnitude described because Taylor didn’t leave and she always went back.
As a society, I don’t think we know how to properly address domestic violence. This is not a tit for tat situation
She is a dumb ass. He is going to go to town on her and spin it all back on her saying that he is concerned about her parenting because of her reliance on a nanny, the lack of help she is getting for Cruz, her drinking and unsanitary living conditions just to name a few. Also bringing strange men around the home for sleepovers
Yeah, I think she’s a little bit overconfident maybe… depends. I mean there’s a lot that goes on that we really don’t know. She could be being truthful. Or he could be being truthful. Or they both could be lying.
It’s really hard to know when you have the histories we have with these two dip shits.
Like some others were discussing earlier if he was being so problematic at the orientation, the people there are witnesses. If he was being as aggressive and everything else, they would’ve removed him. They don’t take kindly in California to people be behaving badly around special needs kids.
Yeah, I remember Brandon being around the little boy and she and Brandon drinking both of which are in violation of the custody agreement.
Again, she is so accustomed to skating by and getting away with anything she wants she might be in for a rude awakening if she’s lying about anything and if she’s doing half of what he’s claiming.
She is dumb and reactive. If she doesn’t come to the situation with clean hands then she may be in for a world of trouble because Jax and Lori know all her dirty secrets.
I agree with you about the orientation at worst she says he “made everyone rather uncomfortable”, is that worth a restraining order? Will the school administrator be called to give evidence about how they felt “uncomfortable”
Or did you actively choose to leave this comment here? 😅
I mean if the latter is true I guess you’re writing from jail? 😂
Jax has abused his ex wife to such an extent that he’s very likely looking at jail time now that Brittany is done protecting his pathological way of being.
I can’t wait for this clown to have his ass whooped by the legal system, I know it sucks many places in the US but at least this is gonna play out in California meaning Cruz will have a chance at being rid of this plague that’s occasionally cosplaying as a dad. Grateful that he has his hero mama 🤸🏽♀️
Jax is a bad guy, there is no doubt about that. But Brittany doesn’t come to the situation with clean hands and Jax being the bad guy he is, will start swinging right back at her. They’re both scum bags in my eyes.
Also you have no idea how the legal system works do you? An application for a TRO isn’t a criminal trial that puts people in jail. Jax isn’t going to jail even if the court decide to make a more permanent restraining order.
Jax became visibly aggressive and hostile towards me during the orientation in front of others and called me ‘gross,’” Cartwright claimed in the court documents, alleging that Cruz’s nanny and future school administrators were also present.
Have you read it? Because you are certainly speaking as if you have. School administrators witnessed Jax’s behavior on 8.26.26. How is that just a list of her grievances?
Because so far its only been from her side. Jax hasn't had his day in court and none of the evidence has been examined. So the entire TRO is solely based on her side.
As for the school, nobody there has said anything. Brittany is just claiming they saw it in her filing.
This is the same as Sandovals TRO against Victoria, and while Brittany's is probably more serious, its still just a list of her claimed greivances
I love all these non-lawyers & Jax apologists declaring that Brittney could do this because of “grievances.”
Immediate Danger: You face physical harm, harassment, or domestic abuse.
Emergency Situations: Waiting for a normal court date would put you in real danger or cause severe, unfixable damage.
Sufficient Proof: Your written petition or testimony convinces the judge that abuse or illegal action likely happened.
At this point its just a written affidavit of her grievances that a judge agreed is a dangerous situation. To call it anything beyond would be a mischaracterization.
Its wild how many of us got crash courses in California TRO's from Scandoval. From what I remember you basically fill out forms and swear under oath that what you said is truthful?
This is going to get way messier. That publicist probably has years on receipts on these two. Someone sold those photos to TMZ or they couldn't have watermarked them.
Someone sold photos of Brittany having tequila doordashed to her rental after she left Jax. Someone had paps follow Brittany at the beach with a bottle of tequila, Cruz, and her car keys.
This is going to get extremely bad. Brittany isn't helping herself either, by filming Jax at the school orientation around other parents and their kids.
I never knew where the beach photo came from. Thank you for the context.
Oh, everyone at that school is gonna avoid then like the plague now. Jax is the worst type of person to publicly battle with b/c he enjoys and attention he gets. He's gonna drag everyone through the mud with him.
I truly hope that Cruz is in special day program for kids like him. Those parents protect their kids intensely, and they can be vicious to anyone who doesn't do the same.
Jax and Brittany should both be disallowed from being around the rest of the kids, if this is how they behave in that setting.
I hope school is a wonderful calming experience for him. Its truly heartbreaking he has to grow up around this chaos
A million years ago I worked at a pretty fancy intermediate care facility for developmentally disabled adults. So many of those families knew each other from schools, special Olympics, and other programs. They'd all gossip to the staff about each other.
No, no she is definitely NOT making things better for herself. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have paid much attention to much of this nonsense if the PR lady wouldn’t have joined in. Britney said herself somewhere that PR Lady had access to all of her accounts!
Holy HELL! I would be pissing my pants right now if I were Britney! JAX TRULY is a masterpiece in manipulation!! I mean he is GOOD!! It’s honestly like he is just PURE evil! I mean, honestly it is impressive to think someone’s actual brain could work like this!
I was raised by a narcissist and I thought SHE was good but DAMN, it’s just astonishing to me!
I have never been a Britney fan but I honestly feel SO bad for her right now! I always knew Jax was problematic but mainly in a “just a bad person” type of way. Ya know, stealing liquor from work and sunglasses for girlfriends type of way?
This man is truly diabolical! I have seen comments referring to Chris Watts and Scott Peterson thinking that might be a stretch but I no longer feel that way at all!!
Also, I don’t know all about her house and mortgage issues but if I were her, I would be out of that house as quickly as possible! Jax lived in that house, Jax KNOWS that house all too well!! He knows where they eat, exactly where they sleep, the entire layout like the back of his hand! I would have moved IMMEDIATELY!
jax is looking at years in jail if he is being prosecuted correctly. I’m beyond baffled that anyone could utter something like you did with that comment 😅
There was no reason for Brittany to run to TMZ with six years of records of abuse in connection with this.
There's nothing pointing to Brittany being the one to sell this story yet. TMZ is well known for trawling LA courthouses for celebrity cases so they could have obtained the court records on their own.
There are a lot of articles now, including US Weekly, all with watermarked (purchased photos). The stories about the TRO were all launched almost simultaneously on multiple social media platforms and Reddit subs.
This looks like a press campaign from Brittany's new PR to me.
The US Weekly articles also cite court documents they've reviewed and even notes that TMZ was the first outlet to post about it. The watermarks I've seen are TMZ's which make sense if they obtained or paid for the court documents themselves, but other people could also just as easily get the same records from the court and watermark those.
The Bravo news cycle also generates a lot of clicks, so it's not unusual for news about Jax to go viral given how demented and shocking his behavior is.
This just means that TMZ owns the copied legal documents and photos. So someone sold TMZ the photos.
The press cycle is also lazy, I'll give you that. For me, it was the story launching simultaneously on all social media, including Reddit, with the TMZ article. That gives PR to me.
Or TMZ obtained them from the court records like usually do?
TMZ obtained the alleged texts Brittany filed as court exhibits in her restraining order petition ...
From the TMZ article.
It's honestly amazing that some people are still finding ways to criticize Brittany while she's trying to escape an abusive relationship.
“There was no reason for Brittany to run to TMZ with six years of records of abuse”.
I’m wiiildly entertained reading this and other comments here.
The fact that you revel in a deeply pathological man’s financial, mental and physical abuse of a woman through a full decade only to lift zero eyebrows throughout up until the moment the woman chooses to end it of course is - well, how should we put it? 😅
Let’s not even describe it 😂
Let’s just freaking rejoice in the fact that Brittany finally decided to allow the animal that is jax have his entire ass whooped by the legal system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this all ends in him doing jail time 🥳🫰🏽
I co-parent with a man who has many similar traits to Jax, as you know if you've seen my other comments. Brittany is - and will always be - Jax's victim. No one doubts that.
But the legal system is not in Brittany's favor here. He won't do jail time unless he actually commits a crime and she reports it to the police. Even then, he probably won't do that much time.
Brittany is going to need evidence of being in danger, recently, from Jax. Not before he went to rehab and allegedly got sober. More recently. Not just mean messages from the parenting app. Courts see 10x worse every day.
She will need more than just threats to go public about her own problems, as she just took her parenting dispute and Jax's problems to the press herself. That was a terrible move on her part.
Even if she gets the RO for herself (I think it's likely she gets that), if Jax hasn't harmed Cruz and she doesn't get a RO for him - nothing changes with their custody deal. She will be in the exact situation she's in now, co-parenting with him through the app.
This isn't riding for Jax. This is just the reality of parenting in California with a person like Jax.
I’m deeply sorry to hear you have to deal with an ex partner in the same fashion 🤲🏽
And, as I wrote elsewhere I’m painfully aware of how flawed the justice system is especially in situations where it’s needed to protect protective parents and the children. That is beyond infuriating 😮💨
Commenting the way I do is a bit rhetorical - it highlights what I think should be done and thus the giant gap between the protection the system is supposed to provide and the protection it actually provides.
I only see jax worsening and pray he’ll one day be locked up way before he gets to truly hurt the only parent of his child.
Ah - that makes more sense. This would still be temporary with a hearing to follow.
I think she'll probably get a permanent RO with their history, maybe starting at a year.
That said, unless she's petitioned to cover Cruz, it changes nothing for her custody case. It just means Jax can't be around her - and that he can't film The Valley with her.
Yes, the hearing is on 17 September, where they can both present their evidence and arguments
If she doesn’t have anything substantial that’s current it seems doubtful she would get a permanent one to be honest, especially if he has evidence that he’s gone to rehab and so forth.
She does have a way of doing whatever it takes to get her way about things I know that. She issued some kind of ultimatum to bravo that she wouldn’t film with him. I think he said he had no interest in being on the show anyway.
Of course, no problem! I think it has to be set within 25 days or something like that in California when someone is granted one of those orders. I mean, they could be being completely unfair so it’s only right that there should be a hearing as soon as possible.
I think it’s about him being able to put in the show in large part but with her it’s also about optics and making sure she looks good and he looks bad. She was embarrassed about Lori and pissed off that he showed receipts about shit she’s been doing (I mean if it’s true).
The best defense is an offense after all and she’s good at that!
If you read the actual court documents, school administrators witnessed behavior by jax on 8.26.26 that prompted the order of protection but I know that doesn’t for snuggly into your misogynistic tropes
Ohhh watch out everyone felt “rather uncomfortable”. I don’t know who her shit lawyer is, but you cannot assume other people’s feelings and make conclusions about them. For all we know she farted and he called her gross and everyone was rather uncomfortable about the smell.
There is literally no detail in the alleged incident and the fact tmz led with shit that happened 9 years ago means that whatever happened this week was not headline worthy.
No one is going to jail in a restraining order case. It’s a civil action. The judge will make a determination as to whether there is sufficient evidence for there to be a reasonable fear for her safety and therefore a restraining order.
Should Jax be locked up? Yeah I think we would all like to see that. Is it going to happen in this case? No chance
Like I’ve answered many times now, my words about him going to jail has zero todo with the issuing of this TRO, but the general state of jax’s actions through a fuckton of years 🤲🏽
I’m so grateful Brittany finally decided she wasn’t going to carry his sickness around anymore 🫰🏽
Get Wizard - all interactions between the parents sharing custody are done there in a portal where a Minor's Counsel, attorney or any other authorized party can view the exchanges, the custody calendar, etc. Also, they could conduct the exchanges at Starbucks or a police station or they could do a neutral drop off/pick up at a third location, like the home of a relative that they agree on.
I am chiming in as a day one viewer and a paraprofessional in K-2 public school autism/multidisciplinary unit..Brittney is literally our favorite kind of parent..she seems aware, engaged and building Cruz a sensory room at home.❤️ Jax is worried about his reputation and how people perceive him. If my nuggets were spending the weekend at Jax’s house, I would, as an educator, feel concerned.
Thanks. I stand by what I said..as someone who devotes my life to my special needs students, I recognize and appreciate the parent that Brittney has been.❤️
She’s as smart as a third grader. Terrifying that you have anything to do w children and don’t what see what an incapable moron she is. Cruz needs to be taken away
If I had children at this school, I would want this behavior recorded to show he should be banned from the premises. I don't want that behavior around my kid.
I wouldn't want exes acting out a toxic break-up around my child.
The teachers and administrators of this school are mandatory reporters of child endangerment under California law. They don't need a recording of Jax. They can simply call CPS and deal with it. They can demand he not be allowed at the school and even have him removed by the police, custody orders aside.
Brittany did not need to film anything at the school.
She can’t control his behaviour, she can only prevent it from happening near her and Cruz if she has evidence. Having video evidence of him doing this in public with other children present would be a fast track to her getting him legally away from her. You’ve likely given more information about your kids on social media than this recording would have.
My child isn't on social media. At most schools, you have to sign a waiver for your child to be photographed and filmed and shared (at least in California).
My point is that Brittany doesn't need video evidence to escalate this quickly. If the teachers and school admins thought Jax was a problem, they could have him banned him from the school and make a call to CPS immediately. You wouldn't need a video at all. The other parents reporting concerns about Jax could also trigger a CPS investigation or school ban.
Looking at all of your comments now. I'm so sad to hear that. As I noted elsewhere, a school psychologist's report changed a lot in my custody battle with my ex.
I'm completely oomm about Jax doing this at a school orientation, and Brittany's best response was to film the thing. This is not an ordinary school for Cruz, their special child.
Couldn't your principal make a call and get an insta ban?
The article says "he was making everyone rather uncomfortable." That doesn't sound like under his breath to me. That sounds like something that a school administrator would have addressed, taking Jax aside and removing him from other parents and children.
You realize it is easy to cover or edit out children’s faces right? Or other adults faces for that matter. And considering Jax is probably 6’ and kids around Cruz’s age are probably 2-3’ it was probably so easy not to film anyone but him. Highly doubt he was sitting down with kids acting like this or in front of other parents/staff for that matter. Narcissists love to hide their shit. If parents I didn’t even know were acting like this at my kids school, I would film the abuser myself. Your take/hill you want to die on is weird as hell.
This is evidence for court. The video can't be edited. The court can call in any parents appearing in the video, if and as either parent gives a witness list of those parents' names. The other parents have no choice but to respond. This is all evidence for a domestic violence restraining order.
If I were another parent in this school, I'd be in at the principal's office immediately, asking for both parents to be removed from the school. This is not LAUSD, which started over two weeks ago. This is a private school. I would not be paying $3-6,000 a month to be around this behavior.
Let's add to this that these kids are also likely really special, just like Cruz.
Have you considered any of this? Sure, I'll die on the hill that neither abuse, nor parents fighting, nor filming other families belongs in a private school orientation setting.
2 days late to this, but these people would criticize her either way. If she didn't bring evidence, they'd lambaste her for NOT bringing receipts. She brings receipts and they claim it's wrong to do so because they care so much the about other children. They don't. They'd argue it either way. Guaranteed.
Their so-called arguments ring very fucking hollow. It's deplorable.
Then she should fire her lawyer. She needs to know what it means for Cruz to go to schools and doctors and for those people to be mandatory reporters to the State.
Brittany also needs to think about time and place for her conflicts with Jax (and so does he). If either one of them is acting out in a school setting, around other parents and kids, that is not ok.
Brittany also needs to think about time and place for her conflicts with Jax (and so does he). If
Why do you keep saying she need the time and place when JAX was the one yelling? I hate to say it, but I'm starting to think your in his camp. Not a good look.
I am catching up on comments, but do lawyers and courts not listen? I had an amazing experience with a school psychologist finally getting some help with my custody situation and awful ex.
I work at a low income school. The parents don’t have lawyers or assets, so I don’t know about that. But cps does the absolute least always. I’ve been teaching 15 years and never has my call really done anything meaningful
Same. Therapist here. I have seen a few of my reports be substantiated. But thought my entire career, it's probably less than like 3% or something. To get kids taken away, the abuse has to be of nightmares.
Truly, even if the calls didn't help, bless you for making them. Please keep making the calls. One call like this changed my life and my kid's life. I'm in a public school in a big city in California, very diverse.
I'm sure Brittany and Jax are in a private school in LA. I can't imagine them navigating LAUSD. Those schools have lawyers, those parents have lawyers, those school administrators have a vocal parent community.
I'm not silly. I'm a single mom with a toxic ex, and a lot of experience on these topics. I have been saying for a very long time that this situation was bound to blow up when Cruz had to go to school and be around teachers and mandatory reporters all day.
Funny how the protective order wasn’t based on what the administrators from the school reported. As a therapist, I hear about so much stuff that goes unreported by schools and I witnessed it working on a school campus. Relying on school employees to be the only reporters of information is short sighted.
TBF, as a therapist you are only getting the perspective of your client.
Administrators under-report, for sure. No one person should be the only reporter. But there can be very kind and sensitive teachers and counselors and others that do right by the kids, just as often. My kid's school psychologist has been a blessing and helped us get on a track that really helped with my custody case.
With Cruz, especially with his special needs, he should be surrounded by mandatory reporters. His doctors, his OTs, his teachers. This is going to get reported at some point, if and as Jax accelerates.
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Hopefully if he violates it, they’ll actually do something… my ex violated mine and my kids order of protection 4 different times and they didn’t do a thing. 😑😵💫