Steve Burton With ex-wife Sheree Burton It has been attracting attention since the split in 2022 – now they are facing each other in another chaotic legal battle.
this General Hospital Xingxing filed for divorce in July 2022 after news that Xie Rui was pregnant with another man’s child. Although the scandal spread like wildfire, Steve and Sheree managed to settle the divorce after working behind closed doors the following year.
However, the former couple returned to the news after a deal with a public poke, after a deal involving their custody agreement involving their youngest daughter Brooklyn. Exes’ eldest son Makena and Jack are no longer minors.
Although both are married – Sheree Wed Jason Amador Steve got married in February 2025 Michelle Lundstrom Possibly – Sheree and Steve disagree that Brooklyn should be with everyone, and who can participate in pickups and get off.
Scroll down to learn everything about Steve and Sheree’s custody battle:
Initial split
Steve announced in May 2022 that he and Sheree called it quit after 23 years of marriage. “I wanted to clear something,” he wrote via Instagram story at the time. “She recently announced that she was looking forward to her fourth child. This kid is not mine. ”
Two months later, the soap opera star married Sheree in 1999 and formally filed for divorce. Steve US Weekly.
us Later, the pair sold their apartment in Newport Beach, California in March 2022 for $3.2 million in the separation.
Divorce completed
us It was confirmed in December 2023 that Steve and Sheree completed their divorce 10 months after Sheree and Amador welcomed their fourth baby Izabella. (Sheree and Amador welcomed their second child, fifth daughter, Addy in February 2024.)
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After selling family homes in 2022, Steve was awarded the remaining three investment properties in Tennessee as part of the settlement.
Child support settlement
According to court documents us In December 2023, Steve and Sheree agreed to share common legal and physical custody of two youngest children, Jack, 17, and Brooklyn, 9.
this The days we live The alumni agreed to pay Sheree $12,500 a month for child support until April 2024, after which he will pay $10,000 a month.
According to the document, the former couple also agreed to “release another person from any and past, present and future spouse support and/or maintenance claims.”
After spouse support, Steve was ordered to pay $2,500 a month until his payment reached $50,000.
Sheree Action
In May 2025, Steve made a statement in a custody battle with Sheree, claiming that it would be difficult for her to see their youngest daughter. He claimed that after the divorce, Shery persuaded Steve to move to Tennessee, and she moved back to California. When he returned to California near Brooklyn, Steve claimed Sheree refused to coordinate Brooklyn’s shared schedule.
“Sheri seems to have forgotten how our family ended in this situation,” Steve wrote in the archives. Contact. “It was Sheree who had an extramarital affair, was pregnant with another man’s child, and moved him into the house immediately after separation without telling me she would do that.”
He claimed that for Brooklyn, the “sudden changes” of his family’s living conditions “must be incredibly confusing and traumatizing”, which happened at the age of 7.
Goal guard accusation appears
Steve claims in May 2025 submission us Sheree guarded Brooklyn from him because she allegedly had problems with his relationship with Lundstrom.
“In the early days of her relationship with Michelle, Shery began to refuse to call Michelle by her name, but instead called her ‘girl’ to downplay her role in my life,” Steve said in the document.
He also shared so-called screenshots and text exchanges from Sheree, which included Sheree’s alleged writing: “Michelle is not your family or our children’s family. She is your girlfriend.”
According to a text message allegedly sent from Sheree, she was dissatisfied with Steve being alone with their youngest child at the time. Sheree texted in the so-called message, saying, “I don’t want to go to Brooklyn tomorrow. If you’re not going to visit Brooklyn, then I’ll pick her up.”
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Steve replied: “Why is this a question?” according to the document. In his declaration to the court, he told the court: “Instructing who can pick him up during my custody time, only I will take her words in person, and only allow me to exercise the detention center, is very unreasonable and demonstrates the control that the control is attempted to assume during my custody time.”
Steve further claimed that if Lundstrom and her own children were there, Sheree would not agree with Brooklyn.
He claimed: “When Michelle and her daughter were in town, I had a hard time doing custody with Brooklyn when I was in California.
Sheree accuses Steve of harassment
She filed her own charges in May 2025 after denying all claims that she refused to work with him on her custody schedule.
“In the past few months, [Steve] Has started sending messages to me and accusing me of responsibility if he can’t get Brooklyn. ” usclaiming: “His message is harassing almost every day.”
Sheree also claimed in a text message shared by Steve in May 2025 file that her ex-husband was in Brooklyn for social media influence. “You and I know it’s about your optics. You’ve seen Brooklyn, maybe for a whole month. I haven’t. [plaster] Her face on social media. ” Sheree wrote in the so-called text: “I don’t want her on social media. ”
Steve denies claims
Steve denied Sheree’s allegations in May 2025. Sarah C. Clark Tell us In a statement issued on May 27.
The statement continued: “On May 12, 2025, the court heard the evidence loudly, clearly, and granted Steve an additional time to detain with Brooklyn, saying Sheree was reluctant to offer it.”
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Steve’s income reveals
Steve’s alleged six-figure monthly income revealed in June 2025 that Sheree asked for $25,000 to help pay for the attorney’s fees.
Sheree initially made the request in April 2025. Two months later, the court ruled against her request. us After that, Sheree said Steve “earned about $100,000 a month.”
“On the other hand, I’m a self-employed coach. My business expenses exceed my income. So my only source of income at the moment comes from half the interest and dividends on the community real estate I invested in, which is half the investment.”
Sheree explained that she earns about $4,000 a month from interest and dividends, but claims she has no other income. She noted that she owns $10,000 in banking, another $600,000 in stocks and bonds, and the value of her personal property is unclear.
