Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt but who will get custody of their six children?

ANGELINA Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after two years of marriage but who will get custody of the couple's six children?

After 12 years together, Angelina, 41, has cited irreconcilable differences for her divorce from Brad Pitt, 53, but how will their spilt affect their children?

The pair, who got married two years ago, have six kids Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 14, Pax Jolie-Pitt, 11 Zahara Jolie-Pitt, 10, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, 9, Knox Jolie-Pitt, 7, and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 7, together.

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But now the acting couple who met in 2005 on the set of action rom-com Mr & Mrs Smith are due to split and Angelina wants overall physical custody.

Maddox, Zahara and Pax were adopted from orphanages in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, respectively, while the remaining three are their biological children.

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The Tomb Raider star doesn’t want Brad to have joint physical custody, just joint legal custody, meaning he would get visitation rights only.

For many fans the split won’t come as a shock as The Sun revealed the couple have been living separate lives for several months following a string of rows – but what might they have been about?

reports that the 41-year-old hired a private investigator to spy on him on the set of his latest film — where they claim she learned he was cheating.

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The “well placed source” told the paper’s section that there is no turning back for the couple – worth £310 million.

They said: “She hired a private eye because she felt that he was fooling around with her on the set, and it turns out, he was.

“And that was the final straw.”

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Earlier this month Angelina visited a refugee camp in Jordan where she urged world leaders to find a solution to the Syrian crisis.

Meanwhile Brad spent the first part of September in Croatia where he is negotiating a £1billion deal to build a new luxury resort in the coastal town of Zablace, complete with villas, a golf course, shops and a flagship hotel.

And the warring couple have not made an official public appearance together since last November at the premiere of their flop movie By the Sea, which was made in Malta.

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