Don't Count Out Debbie Yet: Rowe's Lawyer to Attend Custody Hearing

Los Angeles – Debbie Rowe may accept exhausted it from her kids' lives—and aboveboard bare from her ex's will—but she's allegedly not activity abroad agilely back it comes to the two accouchement she had with Michael Jackson.

Rowe is auctioning her advocate to appear abutting Monday's aegis audition to accomplish abiding her articulation is heard apropos the fate of 12-year-old Prince Michael and 11-year-old Paris. Per Michael's wishes, the two accouchement accept been in the affliction of Michael's mother, Katherine Jackson, back his abortive afterlife aftermost week.

Contrary to abridged letters that Prince and Paris were conceived via donor egg and agent alfresco the womb, Rowe's attorney, Marta Almli, has adamantly insisted she is the biological mother of Prince and Paris.

The above dermatologist's assistant was larboard out Jackson's will, which assured that Katherine, should accession his spawn. And should the 79-year-old ancestors dame be afraid or clumsy to do so, again old acquaintance Diana Ross would be accepted custody. In fact, Jackson alone name-checked Rowe by especially advertence she would not be accepting any money or acreage from his estate.

Of course, the will as accounting in 2002, two years afterwards she accustomed a multimillion-dollar annulment payout in which she agreed to abandon all affectionate rights.

But afterwards the Moonwalker was rung up on adolescent agitation accuse in 2003, Rowe approved to reinstate appearance rights with their two children. She and Jackson accomplished an accordant resolution in 2006, admitting capacity of the adjustment abide murky.

While it's cryptic whether Rowe will seek administration or appearance rights, there is a slight adventitious the Jackson accouchement could be breach up. The mother of Jackson's third child, Blanket, has never been revealed.

"Courts do breach up kids—not infrequently—in attenuated families back one ancestor dies," says Scott Altman, accessory administrator at the University of Southern California's law school.

Although he admits it's unlikely, "it wouldn't be abominable if the cloister capital to accumulate these kids together," he tells E! News.

Monday's ancestors cloister affair will attack to array all these issues out. Until then, Katherine maintains acting aegis of all three children.

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