Anne Heche and Coley Laffoon are going to get equal face time with their son.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge gave the actress and her estranged husband joint custody of five-year-old Homer and ordered her to pay Laffoon an unspecified amount of monthly support, reps for the couple tell E! News.
Heche, who's headed back to Vancouver next month to start shooting the second season of Men in Trees, will have alternate weekend visits with Homer while she's in Canada. Per a previous court filing, the Los Angeles-based Laffoon was scheduled to bring Homer to Vancouver in July to spend time with his mom, so the every-other-weekend arrangement will go into effect Aug. 11, according to Laffoon's attorney, Jon Summers.
When Heche is in L.A., where Homer primarily lives and attends school, she will spend every other week with him, per Heche's attorney, Martin Singer.
As for the monetary arrangement, a source told E! News that Laffoon—who was originally gunning for $33,000 in spousal and child support to maintain the "marital standard of living" to which he had become accustomed—got "far below his original demands."
The freelance videographer and stay-at-home dad, who filed for divorce in February, petitioned the court in early May for joint legal custody and primary physical custody of Homer, stating in his filing that Heche had "poor parenting skills" and had exhibited "bizarre and delusional behavior" that made him wary of leaving Homer in her care.
Laffoon alleged that he was the one who had created a stable home life for Homer and requested that Heche be required to undergo a psychological evaluation.
Heche, who went public with her longtime struggle with mental illness in her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, fired back, saying that, yes, Laffoon might spend more time at home than she does, but only because she's out earning a living and home is where he could engage in his favorite hobbies—playing ping-pong, playing poker, checking out online porn and masturbating.
"Coley does stay at home while I am working, but not to parent," she stated in court documents.
Requesting full legal and physical custody of Homer, Heche accused Laffoon of resorting to "lies and distortions" after she refused his request for support in the amount of $45,000 a month.
The cloud of animosity seemed to lift a bit last month when the two sides agreed on a temporary custody arrangement and promised to stop insulting each other in front of their son. That short-lived deal had Heche and Laffoon shuttling Homer between them every few days. Heche also agreed to give her hubby $19,000 in support for the month of May, according to court documents.