ms jolie has been working privately for four and a half years to both heal her family and to fight for improvements to the system to ensure that other families do not experience what hers has endured peter harvey an attorney and former attorney general of new jersey who has been working with jolie on policy issues told the associated press jolie has sought to disqualify ouderkirk a private judge she and pitt chose to maintain their privacy arguing that he has an improper business relationship with one of pitts attorneys she said in mondays filing that if the tentative custody decision is made final by ouderkirk she will appeal it jolie 45 and pitt 57 were among hollywoods most prominent couples for 12 years they had been married for two years when jolie filed for divorce they were declared divorced in april 2019 after their lawyers asked for a judgment that allowed a married couple to be declared single while other issues remained including finances and child custody