Eminem and his ex-wife Kimberley Mathers avoided taking their
second divorce to trial by finalizing it with an out-of-court settlement during
a hearing at Detroit’s Macomb County Circuit Court yesterday (December 20).

Eminem (born Marshall Mathers III) filed for divorce from Kim on Wednesday
(April 5), less than three months after the couple remarried in a highly documented
but intimate ceremony in January. The two were first married in 1999, but that
marriage ended in October 2001 with a legal battle over custody of their daughter
Hailey. They would later reconcile in late 2004 and Eminem went public with
their love in December 2005.

According to the Detroit Free Press, the hearing was presided over by Chief
Judge Antonio P. Viviano, who raved about the couple’s behavior. "These
people were a pleasure," Viviano told the Free Press. "They conducted
themselves with dignity and respect." The couple will now share custody
of their daughter. They also reached an undisclosed agreement which mentioned
money and property issues.