Madonna & Guy Ritchie squabbling over kids and Christmas?

Madonna and Guy Ritchie are reportedly facing the next custody battle in their potentially ongoing custody war: who gets sons Rocco and David for Christmas.

The couple agreed to share physical and legal custody of the boys after their separation in October but with Madonna moving the family to New York, the division of the children’s time is likely to be problematic.

A source close to the couple told the Daily Mail that given the speed of the divorce proceedings, they have yet to finalise all the details of the custody arrangement and that includes where the children spend holidays and the like: “Both Madonna and Guy want David and Rocco on Christmas Day.

“Under the terms of the divorce, it is actually up to Guy and Madonna to sort out the access. It’s not set in stone who has the boys on which days.

“The arrangement is that Guy has the boys for a set number of days in the year. It’s a 50/50 agreement but there is a provision that their main residence should be New York.

“The agreement is that Guy gets them four or five days a month in London, but that he can see them in New York, making the time anything up to two weeks a month.”

Christmas is a particular problem - given the family-focused nature of the holiday and that it’s come so soon after the couple’s separation: “Guy wants a traditional Christmas with his parents and the boys at Ashcombe but Madonna has just put her foot down and refused to allow it.

“She is just digging her heels in saying she want them with her in America.

“They are at a total stalemate. Madonna and Guy simply do not liaise at all on anything anymore - it all goes through their PAs.”

The source added that no matter where the children end up, the former couple are competing to be the best parent come Christmas morning.

The source explained that as in previous years, Madonna is said to have told Guy not to buy too many presents for the children in line with her Kabbalah beliefs: “But meanwhile, Madonna has already dispatched one of her London-based PAs to go to Hamleys to bag the biggest must-have toys in the shop for the two boys.

“And of course, [this year] Guy has reacted to Madonna’s words like a red rag to a bull. There will be no expense spared.”

Madonna gave birth to son Rocco shortly before the couple’s marriage in December 2000 then they adopted son David in 2006. She also has a 12 year old daughter Lourdes Leon from a previous relationship.