The legal hits just keep coming for Jenelle Evans in her battle for custody of her son Jace!
The Ashley can exclusively reveal that Jace’s father Andrew Lewis has filed for partial custody of the 16-year-old. On Friday, Andrew officially filed a Cause of Action in the custody court case that he and Jenelle’s mom Barbara have against Jenelle. (As The Ashley previously reported, Barbara filed for full custody of Jace last month in an attempt to regain custody of him from Jenelle.)
Andrew is asking the judge to give him secondary custody of Jace and visitation, while giving Barbara primary custody of the boy. He is asking that the judge only give Jenelle supervised visitation with Jace, if the court decides it’s appropriate.
Last week, Barbara and/or Andrew filed a motion asking that Jenelle be held in contempt of court for her actions regarding Jace particularly over the last few months. As The Ashley told you, Jenelle had kept Jace in a mental health facility for about a month in February, despite Andrew and Barbara wanting Jace to be released into their care. Late last month, Jenelle pulled Jace out of the facility and took him to an unknown location. According to Andrew, he and Barb have not been permitted to see or talk to Jace since.
After Andrew told The Ashley in late March that he had already incurred massive medical debt due to Jace being held at the mental health facility for several weeks (at the behest of Jenelle), Jenelle gave an interview to TMZ bragging that she is paying for Jace’s medical expenses.
“At this time, my son is FULLY covered by health insurance, and I AM currently handling and paying for all of his medical care,” Jenelle told TMZ.
The Ashley contacted Andrew for comment on his latest legal move, and he confirmed that he is trying to get partial custody of his son. He also revealed that new insurance claims continue to roll in every day, and he is now starting to get claims from the place that Jenelle put Jace in last month.
“She claimed she had a ‘sponsor’ for Jace to go there and pay for it,” Andrew told The Ashley in a comment. “She lied. She is not paying for Jace’s medical care. There is no sponsor, because [the new place] is now billing my insurance. The medical bills are now well over $102,000, and she is not paying it, even though that’s what she claimed.
“Our lawyers are taking care of everything,” Andrew added.
Jenelle, Barbara and Andrew are all scheduled to meet up in court on May 26, where Andrew’s bid for partial custody (as well as Barb’s for primary custody) will be addressed. The petition for Jenelle to be held in contempt of court will also likely be addressed during that hearing. It would require Jenelle to explain to the judge how her actions have not violated the custody court order that she and Barbara agreed to in 2023.
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Watch the show from the very beginning. She had no business keeping Jace in the first place. Her “need for custody” was about having control. It had nothing to do with Jace. At this point, she needs to let it go, give up custody, and walk away for good.
Poor Kaiser and Ensley.
I know. Whenever I see posts about him, I always remember him as that sweet baby boy caught up in all the chaos. Jenelle and Keiffahhh getting high, Babs screaming her head off. Poor little dude had such a rough life ahead of him. Everyone knew it back then, and here it is proven now. I would love to think that Andrew could be a good option to provide some stability and structure for him, but I doubt it. I just hope he can grow up and use his family as examples of what *not* to do in life. Jace may not know it, but he has the entire Teen Mom fan base rooting for him.
I know it’s taken 16yrs. But thank F Andrew has stepped up now to try and help his son instead of just wiping his hands with a “not my problem” attitude.
Hopefully Jace gets the help he needs and Andrew & Babs are successful in keeping Jenelle away from Jace, who she never wanted from the beginning.
This poor child. He’s almost an adult and none of these sh!theads have managed to get themselves together in the whole of his life to at least give him a fighting chance. Every time he’s semi settled she rocks up to fck up his life. She never wanted him, she just didn’t want Barb to! She saw dollar signs not a child. She ferried toxic men in and out of his life.
Andrew was only marginally better in that he was consistently absent, not popping in and out.
CPS & family courts have failed this young man. His family has failed him.
He’s going to age out of the system before anyone does right by him. How incredibly sad.
Janelle is seriously one of the worst from Teen Mom….From day 1 she didn’t give 2 shits about Jace….I just did a rewatch recently and WOW ….It’s unfortunate the NC court system kept letting her off practically everything she got involved in because maybe she would of gotten scared straight or atleast knew there’s consequences…Andrew was never involved but let’s not forget Janelle would say she hated him etc so she wasn’t reaching out to him either like some of the other Teen Moms did….Andrew should of been involved from day 1 whether he and Janelle are enemies or not….Jace needed a strong father figure throughout life Barbara could not provide that …I hope Barbara ends up with him again because he should of never left her house….His birth mother is deeply ill she needs mental help and her other kids need helped as well …
If you watch from the very very beginning, you’re right…you get a total sense of how little she cared for Jace, how reckless and selfish she was, and how she should have been in jail for a long time.
I hope he is successful. That poor kid, she is such a disgusting excuse for a woman.
Go Barbara and Andrew! They’re making all the right moves to get Jace out and try to hold Jenelle accountable. I just hope he’s been in good facilities and has learned healthy coping mechanisms and is back on meds.
Last year Janelle said she didn’t have money for treatment for Jace. She gladly handed the bill to Andrew while she pissed away whatever money she has on cosmetic surgery. And she’s still ugly AF!
I hope the judge makes Jenelle pay the medical bills, since she claims that she already has been. I also hope everything goes Barb’s and Andrew’s way for custody. IF Jenelle gets supervised visits with Jace, it should be set that David cannot even be in the car in the parking lot or driveway wherever the visits are held. She shouldn’t even have custody of the younger 2 kids. I hope Jace writes a book or goes on a podcast tour to spill ALL the tea! I hope he never speaks to Jenelle again after he turns 18 and I hope for the best for his future. I hope is successful in whatever he wants to pursue in his career life.
So he basically filed for secondary custody under Barbara? Not the same as joint custody?
Jenelle doesn’t even deserve supervised visits, honestly.
Hopefully atp a decent judge just says look you degenerate, you’ve abused the court system for years and played victim while playing in the public’s faces about what you’re actually doing. Taking Jace out of the only care that he felt was solid and banking them was a disgrace of a decision and NOT in his vest interest.
They should make her pay the medical and court fees and give her supervised visitation if Jace wants it. I’d throw the entire woman away.
Banning***
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I hope he gets it. That’s the best case scenario for Jace at this point. This poor kid literally is being deprived of the only mother figure he ever had in his life and his father who apparently has been more involved than Jenelle has said. Jenelle clearly doesn’t want to raise Jace or do what’s best for him. She isn’t acting out of a maternal love. She uses Jace like a pawn in the battle against Barb. It’s sick. Shame on the courts for allowing this shit to perpetuate for years.
You know what this actually reminds me of? when Kate Gosselin just decided she didn’t want to deal with Colin so she ships him off and locks him in a facility alone knowing his father wanted custody of him. That’s who Jenelle is Kate Gosselin 2.0
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HA Jen wishes she was Kate! I am not K+8 fan but she seems to love her children- the same cannot be said for Jenelle…ever