Tom Cruise Going To Court To Seek Temporary Visitation Of Daughter Suri
July 5 2012, Published 12:00 p.m. ET
By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor
Tom Cruise hunkered down on the 4th of July to strategize how to proceed after his estranged wife, Katie Holmes, filed for divorce, but he has made getting temporary visitation of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri, his main priority, and he intends to go to court in Los Angeles and make the plea in person, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.
As we previously reported, Cruise had planned to spend his 50th birthday on Tuesday with his wife and daughter in Iceland where he was shooting a movie. Instead, the actor flew back to Beverly Hills where he was joined by his older children with Nicole Kidman, Bella and Connor, at what can only be described as a somber gathering.
Holmes filed for divorce in New York City, and a source close to the situation tells us "the first move his Los Angeles-based divorce lawyer Dennis Wasser has advised him to do is file for divorce in California. This will most likely happen by the end of the week.
"Tom has told Dennis and Bert Fields, his long-time entertainment lawyer, that his first priority is getting a court order in place, obviously a temporary one, that will allow him to legally see his daughter. Team Cruise has extensive documentation to prove that Los Angeles is where the case should proceed, because this is where he says they have lived. Tom is extremely disappointed that Katie filed in New York, and he feels that she is trying to cut him out