The custody battle between Hollywood A-list stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt that has been ongoing for five years and counting has derailed once again this week as the actress has claimed in a court filing that a judge has refused to allow their six children to testify.

Jolie and Pitt split in 2016 and their divorce was finalized in the summer of 2019, but the custody battle over their six children remains ongoing.

Fox News reported that Jolie claimed in a court filing this week that Judge John Ouderkirk, who she has previously tried to disqualify from the divorce case, declined to hear evidence that she alleges is relevant to the children’s safety before he issued a tentative ruling. She did not elaborate any further on what this evidence may be.

“Judge Ouderkirk denied Ms. Jolie a fair trial, improperly excluding her evidence relevant to the children’s health, safety, and welfare, evidence critical to making her case,” she stated in the filing in California’s Second District Court of Appeal.

Jolie went on to say that the judge “has failed to adequately consider” a section of the California courts code, which says “it is detrimental to the best interest of the child if custody is awarded to a person with a history of domestic violence.” While the details of what she is talking about have not been made public, her attorneys submitted a document under seal two months ago that gives more information.

Jolie filed for divorce back in 2016 days after a fight broke out on a private jet flight that their family was taking from France back to Los Angeles. Though Pitt was accused of being abusive to their 15 year-old son on this flight, an investigation by child welfare officials and the FBI found no evidence of this, and he was never charged.

Despite this, Jolie still claimed that she was seeking a divorce “for the health of the family.” In her latest filing, she alleged that the judge “refused to hear the minor teenagers’ input as to their experiences, needs, or wishes as to their custody fate,” citing a California code that states that a child 14 or over should be allowed to testify if they want to.

Pitt’s lawyers have fired back at this filing by saying, “Ouderkirk has conducted an extensive proceeding over the past six months in a thorough, fair manner and reached a tentative ruling and order after hearing from experts and percipient witnesses.”

They added that the judge found that Jolie’s testimony “lacked credibility in many important areas, and the existing custody order between the parties must be modified, per Mr. Pitt’s request, in the best interests of the children.”

Pitt’s attorneys concluded by saying that Jolie’s objections and further delays in reaching an arrangement would “work grave harm upon the children, who will be further denied permanence and stability.”