T.J. Holmes Must ‘Be More Non-public’ About Relationship with Amy Robach amid Divorce: Household Attorney

T.J. Holmes might per chance want to re-deem how great of his relationship with GMA3 co-host Amy Robach is shared with the general public until his divorce from his partner Marilee Fiebig is finalized.

Lisa Zeiderman, managing partner of the Fresh York family law office Miller Zeiderman, believes Holmes, Forty five, “must mild be extra non-public” with his contemporary romance because the attention might per chance one scheme or the opposite damage him amid his ongoing divorce.

“I deem that there are much less public ways to fabricate it,” Zeiderman tells PEOPLE completely. “If it was my client, I’d direct that if here is something that you truly want to fabricate, want to fabricate, you would possibly want to fabricate at this second, then capture it out of the general public ogle. And certainly manufacture no longer you, your self, set it accessible in the general public ogle.”

“Again, unless there might per chance be a pair of motive that it is appropriate for his career, appropriate for his custody case, which I will be capable to’t imagine,” she adds.

Amy Robach and TJ Holmes.
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Holmes and Robach’s romance grew to become public when photos of the two having a glimpse relaxed surfaced in November 2022 whereas both events were mild married. (Robach, 49, has been married to actor Andrew Shue since 2010.)

A source later told PEOPLE that the GMA3: What You Need To Know co-hosts “both broke up with their spouses in August within weeks of every other” and “the relationship did now not initiating until after that.”

The source added, “They were both separated so that they felt very chuffed dating in the initiate after that. Their spouses had moved out, even! So they weren’t hiding anything.”

Since then, Holmes has filed for divorce from his partner of 12 years. Around that time, PEOPLE confirmed that Holmes and Robach “are in like” as they spent the holidays collectively in Miami and Atlanta.

“They spent the holidays collectively and are spending all of their time collectively excellent-searching now. They’re entirely in a relationship,” the insider acknowledged. “They manufacture no longer seem like hiding anything at all because they manufacture no longer have any motive to.”

Marilee Fiebig and T.J. Holmes.
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No topic this, Zeiderman says Holmes’ divorce might per chance become subtle as he shares 10-year-weak daughter Sabine with Fiebig, Forty five. (Holmes additionally shares daughter Brianna and son Jaiden with ex-partner Amy Ferson.)

Zeiderman believes Holmes’ present choices might per chance have an effect on his custodial rights if he doesn’t support things with Robach extra beneath wraps.

“I deem one thing is with out a doubt the scheme it impacts custody,” Zeiderman shares. “When we now have gotten purchasers who are having affairs, we repeat them to be abundant cautious about no longer flaunting it, about being cautious since you manufacture no longer want your children truly to see this in the papers. That does no longer truly abet, and it is miles never necessarily abundant judgment to be doing this because your baby’s going to see all of this.”

“So, it also can have an affect on, with regards to judgment, what a courtroom might per chance take into yarn your judgment as a parent,” she continues. “And additionally, about whether or no longer it has an affect on who finally ends up being the custodial parent, who finally ends up making choices for the children, all of those forms of things with out a doubt are crucial.”

She adds: “You need to to mild be ready to, in a divorce action, set your baby’s supreme passion earlier than your indulge in. While it is completely appropriate that you’d be dating afterwards, it is miles never a request of excellent-searching what’s appropriate. Or no longer it is miles a request of what’s in the correct passion of your baby.”

Amy Robach and Andrew Shue.

Even supposing Zeiderman admits that she does no longer know everything about the case, she believes Holmes’ latest picks might per chance give Fiebig “a leg up” when it involves custody of Sabine.

“We manufacture no longer know what the baby knew,” Zeiderman says. “We manufacture no longer know what they’ve told their baby. We manufacture no longer know if she acknowledged, ‘I manufacture no longer care in the event you are on social media. It doesn’t topic to me.’ Per chance they sat down with the baby. Per chance they’ve spoken to the baby’s therapist. Per chance the baby’s therapist has spoken to the baby. Per chance none of here is an ache for this particular baby, but you would possibly want to deem to your self that a baby has feelings about this too.”

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Zeiderman additionally notes she doesn’t query Holmes no longer to this level, but strongly advises him to reel it assist in until the very public scenario calms down and his divorce is fully at the support of him.

“When we now have gotten a client who is having an affair, we continuously direct, ‘Establish your supreme foot forward with regards to your baby. Don’t exit and flaunt it,’ because your baby has friends. Your baby has a community. Your baby goes to faculty,” she explains. “You manufacture no longer want your baby to with out a doubt feel embarrassed, or to with out a doubt feel singled out, or in the center of all of this. You intention conclude to want to preserve it as low-key as which which you might per chance imagine for your baby’s sake.”