Samantha Cope and Joey Lawrence. Courtesy Samantha Cope/Instagram
UPDATE: 10/18/24 5:00 p.m. ET.
Cope amended her divorce petition on October 8, Us Weekly can verify. She is now asking the courtroom for joint authorized custody, in line with courtroom paperwork obtained by Us on Friday, October 18. She nonetheless needs sole bodily custody of their daughter, Dylan.
Cope can be asking the decide to not give alimony to both celebration and is claiming there isn’t a “group and quasi-community property” to separate between the estranged couple.
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Joey Lawrence’s spouse, Samantha Cope, has filed for divorce, Us Weekly can verify.
Cope, 37, filed to finish her marriage to the actor on Wednesday, August 21, two months after their listed date of separation. Per courtroom paperwork obtained by Us, Samantha is requesting sole bodily custody of their 19-month-old daughter, Dylan.
In paperwork obtained by Us, Cope states that she would approve Lawrence staying with Dylan for as much as two nights per week after she turned 3. Cope has additionally blocked the courtroom’s potential to award spousal help. TMZ was the primary to report the information.
Lawrence, 48, moved on with Cope after his break up from ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson in July 2020. The pair met on the set of Lifetime’s My Husband’s Secret Brother.
“So we met there and out of nowhere, you understand, it was a loopy 12 months and a half for everyone, clearly the entire world,” Lawrence completely advised Us in 2021, referring to the coronavirus pandemic. “Then while you least count on [it], superb issues occur and assembly her has simply been actually the best factor ever.”
In August 2021, Us completely broke the information that Lawrence and Cope have been engaged, with Joey subsequently taking to social media to gush about their future.

“We’re past excited to see what the longer term holds for us and to know we’ll develop previous and tremendous wrinkly collectively is the last word blessing,” he wrote on the time.
Lawrence and Cope wed in Could 2022. Months later, Lawrence revealed they have been anticipating their first child. (Lawrence additionally shares daughters Charleston, 18, and Liberty, 14, with Yawn-Nelson, whom he was married to for greater than a decade.)
“The blessings simply carry on coming. Pleased with you babe! ?,” Lawrence captioned an Instagram photograph of himself cradling Cope’s child bump in September 2022.
They welcomed their daughter in January 2023. “1.16.23 ??? ~ Dylan Rose Lawrence ~ Mother, Dad and massive sisters are all so smitten with you candy woman!” the twosome wrote in a joint Instagram put up on the time. “We welcomed her into this world with probably the most superb midwife, everyone seems to be completely satisfied and wholesome and we’re overjoyed with gratitude ??? wow what a phenomenal journey. thanks for all of your continued love surrounding this stunning new life! keep tuned for child spam xoxo.”
Over one 12 months after welcoming daughter Dylan, Lawrence joked that he’s been “married a billion occasions” as a result of he’s a “hopeless romantic.”
“It’s all about simply making an attempt to be completely satisfied,’ he advised Us. “You bought to be with the appropriate individual.”