When Shane Maguire took Nicole Curtis to court in April 2017, he claimed that the mother was using distance as an excuse to keep the father from Harper — Maguire lived in Minnesota, while Curtis lived in Michigan with their son. The DIY Network host did not want young Harper travelling while he was ill. “If [Curtis] did not want a young child to be on an airplane, she should not have moved from Minnesota to Michigan just days after the birth of Harper,” court documents obtained by E! read. That was not the only tactic Maguire claimed Curtis had used to maintain additional custody.
Later that year, in November 2017, Maguire alleged that Curtis was using breastfeeding as an excuse to keep Harper from spending the night with his father, per People. The dad said that Curtis could pump breast milk, even though she maintained she was having trouble producing enough milk to pump.
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That led to the TV presenter having to produce breast milk in front of a court-appointed third-party. A few months earlier, she discussed the ordeal in a revealing Instagram post in August 2017. “[B]eing court ordered to pump rather than feed my baby the only way he knows how,” Curtis wrote. “[S]o they could document that yes, indeed my body doesn’t produce enough milk by pumping,” she added. Eventually the parents reached an agreement on child custody, but that was not the end of their legal drama.
