‘Married to Medicine’ Star Lia Jones Seeks Custody Change After Violent Divorce

A “Married to Medicine: Los Angeles” star is heading back to court to rewrite the terms of her devastating divorce. Lia Jones has filed new legal documents requesting a 50/50 legal and physical custody arrangement with her two children, currently in the sole care of her ex-husband Colin Dias. The move comes after years of restricted access stemming from a restraining order and a divorce settlement that gave Dias full custody while requiring Jones to complete extensive rehabilitation programs.

The original divorce settlement left Jones with an uphill climb. She lost sole legal and physical custody of her kids and faced a restraining order that required her to “keep her nose clean for a year” before she could even begin working toward more time with them. For three years, her visits were monitored, her actions scrutinized, her access limited.

Now she’s asking a judge to change that. According to court documents, Jones argues that while Dias financially supports their two children, he’s “failing to recognize their emotional needs”. She describes her current relationship with the kids as “loving, supportive and the strongest it’s ever been”.

The distance between Jones and her children has been both physical and emotional. Dias relocated the kids to Lake Elsinore, California, approximately 90 miles from Los Angeles. The move effectively placed a mountain range between mother and children. But Jones says she’s been making the drive anyway, four hours round trip, several times a week, just to be with them.

Jones’s court filing raises alarms about her son’s well-being in his father’s care. She claims the child has received multiple school detentions for fighting. More concerning, she alleges that suicidal messages were discovered on his phone, messages she says his father was unaware of. These details form the emotional core of her argument that the current arrangement isn’t serving the children’s best interests.

The path back to her children hasn’t been easy. Jones says she’s completed a 52-week domestic violence course, undergone extensive therapy, and attended parenting and anger management classes. The coursework represents the conditions she had to meet before even asking a court to reconsider her parental access.

The judge overseeing the case has ordered both parties to attend mediation to address the custody issues. A hearing is scheduled for May, where the court will consider Jones’s request for more parenting time. The outcome could fundamentally reshape a family already fractured by years of legal battles and separation.