Samantha Cope and Joey Lawrence. Courtesy Samantha Cope/Instagram
UPDATE: 10/18/24 5:00 p.m. ET.
Cope amended her divorce petition on October 8, Us Weekly can verify. She is now asking the courtroom for joint authorized custody, based on courtroom paperwork obtained by Us on Friday, October 18. She nonetheless needs sole bodily custody of their daughter, Dylan.
Cope can also be asking the choose to not give alimony to both occasion and is claiming there isn’t any “group and quasi-community property” to separate between the estranged couple.
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Joey Lawrence’s spouse, Samantha Cope, has filed for divorce, Us Weekly can verify.
Cope, 37, filed to finish her marriage to the actor on Wednesday, August 21, two months after their listed date of separation. Per courtroom paperwork obtained by Us, Samantha is requesting sole bodily custody of their 19-month-old daughter, Dylan.
In paperwork obtained by Us, Cope states that she would approve Lawrence staying with Dylan for as much as two nights per week after she turned 3. Cope has additionally blocked the courtroom’s means to award spousal help. TMZ was the primary to report the information.
Lawrence, 48, moved on with Cope after his cut up from ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson in July 2020. The pair met on the set of Lifetime’s My Husband’s Secret Brother.
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“So we met there and out of nowhere, , it was a loopy 12 months and a half for everyone, clearly the entire world,” Lawrence solely instructed Us in 2021, referring to the coronavirus pandemic. “Then once you least count on [it], wonderful issues occur and assembly her has simply been actually the best factor ever.”
In August 2021, Us solely broke the information that Lawrence and Cope have been engaged, with Joey subsequently taking to social media to gush about their future.
“We’re past excited to see what the longer term holds for us and to know we are going to develop outdated and tremendous wrinkly collectively is the final word blessing,” he wrote on the time.
Lawrence and Cope wed in Could 2022. Months later, Lawrence revealed they have been anticipating their first child. (Lawrence additionally shares daughters Charleston, 18, and Liberty, 14, with Yawn-Nelson, whom he was married to for greater than a decade.)
The three Lawrence brothers — Joey, Matthew and Andrew — are not any strangers to showcasing their sibling connection in actual life or on the large display screen. The trio performed onscreen siblings in NBC’s short-lived sitcom Brotherly Love from 1995 to 1997. (The second and last season aired by way of The WB.) The comedy adopted eldest brother Joe Roman (Joey […]
“The blessings simply carry on coming. Happy with you babe! 🖤,” Lawrence captioned an Instagram picture of himself cradling Cope’s child bump in September 2022.
They welcomed their daughter in January 2023. “1.16.23 🕊️💗 ~ Dylan Rose Lawrence ~ Mother, Dad and massive sisters are all so smitten with you candy woman!” the twosome wrote in a joint Instagram submit on the time. “We welcomed her into this world with probably the most wonderful midwife, everyone seems to be comfortable and wholesome and we’re overjoyed with gratitude 🙏🏼🤍 wow what a lovely journey. thanks for all of your continued love surrounding this stunning new life! keep tuned for child spam xoxo.”
Over one 12 months after welcoming daughter Dylan, Lawrence joked that he’s been “married a billion instances” as a result of he’s a “hopeless romantic.”
“It’s all about simply making an attempt to be comfortable,’ he instructed Us. “You bought to be with the best individual.”