People.com is reporting that singer Bobby Brown is suing ex-wife Whitney Houston and seeking to change the terms of their custody arrangement for their 14-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
In court documents filed April 26 in Orange Superior Court, Brown, 40, says that financial and emotional problems prevented him from filing a response to Houston's divorce petition.
"After Whitney and I separated, I had nowhere to go and very little money to live on," Brown states. "I was, for all intents and purposes, homeless."
By the end of last year, Brown writes, he was "distraught and depressed" and didn't understand the importance of responding to Houston's petition on time.
He also says Houston told him she'd give him six months to respond to see if they could work things out.
But from there, things only got worse: Because of his split from Houston, 43, Bravo declined to film a second season of his reality show, Being Bobby Brown. He was later arrested in Massachusetts over a separate child-support issue and spent four days in jail.
When he learned that Houston had sought a default judgment in order to fast-track the divorce and win custody of Bobbi Kristina, he says he was shocked and, "simply put, could not believe it."
Houston, who has a home in Laguna Hills, won custody last month, and told the court Brown is "unreliable. If he says he's going to come, sometimes he does.
Usually he doesn't.
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