Usher won primary custody of the couple’s two children, Usher V and 4-year-old Naviyd, last year after a bitter court fight in which Foster Raymond accused the singer of being an absentee father.įoster Raymond filed in May for a custody modification. … He doesn’t confer with me regarding anything, nothing,” she told the court. I don’t know why or what illness or who’s taking them to the doctor. … My son was hysterical and in the back of an ambulance.”įoster Raymond also said Usher does not keep her informed about what is going on in the children’s lives. Usher, as he is known in his career as a singer and actor, testified that he waited an hour to inform his ex-wife that their son had nearly drowned in a swimming pool accident because “the first thing to do was to respond to the emergency. The judge instructed Usher to keep his ex-wife informed about his whereabouts and who is taking care of the children. “Based on the evidence I heard, not one person could have done any better than Ms. Oden did impress me as a capable caregiver,” Goger said. “What happened here was an awful accident and … I’m not certain that had any single person been at the poolside that one person could have done any better than Ms.
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Foster Raymond testified that she does not trust the childcare of Raymond’s aunt.įulton County Superior Court Judge John Goger did not agree. Usher’s ex-wife argued that the boy’s aunt, Rena Oden, who was caring for the child at the time of the accident, is incapable of keeping up with the two children. A judge rejected Foster Raymond’s emergency request, finding that the pool mishap was not crisis situation requiring that Usher’s two children be taken from him.