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Legal
Courtney Love loses custody of daughter
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 15 December 2009
Custody of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, has been transferred to the latter’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, and sister, Kimberly Dawn Cobain, following a hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. The pair are now responsible for the seventeen year’s personal and financial wellbeing until February, when the temporary order expires.
Love’s lawyer Keith Fink told TMZ: “Courtney wants to say she loves her daughter and she’s the most important thing in her life”. Meanwhile, O’Connor and Cobain’s lawyer Geraldine Wyle told reporters that the case was a private matter and that her clients would offer no public statement on the matter.
Publicly available court papers do not give a reason for the ruling, except to state generally that temporary guardianships are granted “when the parent is not capable of taking care of their children”, but does not mention Love by name. Full details of the hearing are currently sealed.
Love regained custody of Frances Bean from O’Connor in 2005, following a lengthy court battle, which at one point saw the two women trade blows outside the court. Love had lost legal guardianship of her daughter in 2003 after she overdosed on painkiller OxyContin (often referred to as ‘hillbilly heroin’) in the presence of the then eleven year old.
