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 ) filed less than three months after
The two were first married in 1999, but that marriage ended in October 2001 with a legal over custody of their daughter Hailey. They would later reconcile in late 2004 and .
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.
