Joey Lawrence's wife Samantha Cope amends divorce petition weeks after initial filing

Joey Lawrence's woman Samantha Cope made a alteration to her divorcement petition connected October 8, per a study from Us Weekly.

After initially filing connected August 21, the 37-year-old histrion aboriginal amended the papers to inquire the tribunal for associated ineligible custody of the couple's 19-month-old girl Dylan.

Cope inactive wishes to person sole carnal custody of the kid and has preemptively agreed to Lawrence, 48, keeping Dylan for up to 2 nights per week erstwhile she turns 3 successful January 2026.

Additionally, the mother-of-one has blocked the court’s quality to grant spousal support.

Lawrence joined Cope successful 2022 aft they met connected the acceptable of the Lifetime movie My Husband's Secret Brother.

Prior to Samantha, Joey was joined to Chandie Yawn-Nelson from 2005 until they announced their divided successful July 2020.

The exes stock 2 children — daughters Charleston, 18, and Liberty, 14. 

Cope cited 'irreconcilable differences' arsenic the origin of her and Lawrence's split, TMZ reported aft reviewing tribunal documents, adding that they separated this past June.

She explained to the tribunal that she does not privation Lawrence to person extended visits with Dylan until she is 'older and tin consent to specified visits.'

There was besides a petition that she person support implicit immoderate non-relatives that her girl is astir portion with Lawrence, according to the outlet.

In August 2021 Cope and Lawrence announced their engagement to Us Weekly, with the histrion gushing to the work astatine the time, 'It’s a batch of large stuff, a batch of truly large stuff. She’s the champion idiosyncratic ever.'

Expounding connected their gathering during the coronavirus pandemic, helium said, 'Out of nowhere, you know, it was a brainsick twelvemonth and a fractional for everybody, evidently the full world...

'Then erstwhile you slightest expect [it], astonishing things hap and gathering her has conscionable been truly the top happening ever.'

He added: 'When you slightest expect it, you know, you virtually conscionable the cleanable idiosyncratic for you, and each those intangibles travel into play … and past you conscionable [the] close person.'

The exes tied the knot successful May 2022 astatine the Temecula Creek Inn successful Temecula, California.

At the time, Cope told People that her courtship with Lawrence was speedy: 'From time one, it was specified a harmless spot to beryllium myself. Two weeks in, I was like, "I volition beryllium with you forever."'

She added, 'When you conscionable the close person, if you're fortunate enough, it cuts to the pursuit truthful quick. I person idiosyncratic who is like-minded and has the aforesaid emotion language, and we pass the aforesaid way. That's ace important. And I americium truthful thankful.'