Sandra Bullock and Husband Battle Porn Star for Child Custody

Here's a role for which Sandra Bullock probably never prepared: wrestling with her husband's porn...

Here's a role for which Sandra Bullock probably never prepared: wrestling with her husband's porn star ex-wife, Janine Lindemulder, over custody of their 5-year-old daughter. Bullock, the perpetual "girl next door" actress famous for films including "The Proposal" and "Miss Congeniality" has been helping her husband, Jesse James, raise his daughter since January of this year while Lindemulder was in prison for tax evasion.

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Bitter Battle Over Fate of Five-Year-Old Girl

Before tying the knot with Bullock in 2004, James was married to Lindemulder. James left Lindemulder when she was seven months pregnant with their daughter, ending their year-long marriage, her lawyer, Ron Hoevet, told the Orange County Register. Hoevet represented Lindemulder when she was ordered to pay almost $300,000 in outstanding taxes last year and served the six-month prison term.

She has since spent six months in a halfway house and, according to court documents, obtained by ABC News, has rented a "low-end three bedroom home in a fairly undesirable neighborhood in Hollywood." Lindemulder stated that it is the best she could do "because of her poor credit" and an order stating "I am not allowed to work in the Adult Industry, which is all I've ever done for the past 23 years."

Janine Lindemulder.

Ideally, Lindemulder says she would like to live near her daughter's school in Costa Mesa, Calif., so she can become be a "good co-parent with Jesse and stepmother, Sandra." In a long letter to the court she says "my daughter and I are both very eager to get back to normal" and requests financial aid, "possibly Jesse [James] can sign for a proper home for [the girl] and I." But according to court documents, it doesnt look like that is going to happen anytime soon. Lindemulder and James have been ordered to meet with a court mediator in the custody dispute later this month.

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Indeed, while Lindemulder was set to regain custody after completing her prison sentence, James went before a judge to determine whether the 40-year-old adult film superstar is a fit mother. According to a court declaration, James asked that Lindemulder prove that she could provide a safe environment for their child that includes keeping her away from pornographers, drug addicts, guns and firearms, felons and other unsafe environments.

James portrays Lindemulder as emotional and erratic, sending taunting text messages to James one moment and writing "I WON'T BE AROUND. YOU GUYS WIN. I CAN'T TAKE" and "U WIN, FICKIN WIN," and then apologizing for her behavior. Court documents confirm that she did apologize for the messages but also indicate she has other issues.

Sandra Bullock.

Lindemulder recently married a man with a checkered legal past. James, in his declaration, asserts that Lindemulder kept her marriage to Jeremy Aikman, "a two-time State and Federal felon," a secret from him and the court. The Judge in the case recently amended Lindemulder's visitation order to states that Aikman must stay from the little girl. Court records indicate that Aikmen recently left prison and has a record of several convictions involving alcohol, guns and manufacture of narcotics.