NBA star Anthony Edwards has agreed to Ayesha Howard’s custody requests following a lengthy paternity battle.
According to documents obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, April 7, Edwards, 23, told a Georgia Superior Court that he consented to Howard receiving temporary sole physical and legal custody of 6-month-old daughter Aubri Summers, who was born in October 2024. In Touch was the first to break the news.
Howard, 38, noted in her court filings that she has been Aubri’s sole caregiver since her birth. Edwards is asking for a Georgia court hearing to “establish [his] child support obligations.”
In October 2024, Edwards filed a paternity lawsuit asking for a DNA test using a “neutral and licensed laboratory” in response to Howard naming him as the child’s father in her own September petition in Los Angeles.
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Howard initially sought sole custody of Aubri in March 2025 and referenced that Edwards underwent a DNA test to confirm paternity in December 2024. She asked for Edwards to be listed as Aubri’s father on her birth certificate.
The Minnesota Timberwolves star submitted court documents in 2024 insisting that he was “not seeking child custody or visitation of Aubri” and claimed “the only issues to be resolved [were] financial in nature.”
The pair previously clashed over child support arrangements, as Howard asked for a payment agreement to be established in California. Edwards successfully blocked Howard’s request in California court, thus moving the case back to Georgia for its most recent developments.
Howard’s lawyer responded in March by stressing their client’s urgent need for a child support agreement because she was “currently unemployed and [relying] on savings, family support and any support that Edwards provides to maintain the needs and care for the minor child.”
In addition to seeking child support to pay for their child’s education, Howard asked for the NBA star to reimburse her for any “actual costs incurred for her pregnancy, birth and expenses incurred after the child’s birth,” as well reimbursement for her attorney’s fees. (Howard shares a son with rapper Lil Baby.)
Shannon Jackson, who has been dating Edwards since 2020 and shares daughter Aislynn with the athlete, seemingly referenced the NBA athlete’s current paternity battle during an emotional Instagram Live session in October 2024.
Calling herself one of “God’s strongest soldiers,” Shannon added, “Put me on the front line. If I gotta un-baby daddy him then I gotta un-baby daddy the first one. Damn!”
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“Can I say this? Y’all just finding out. For the comment that said I was hurting on the inside, pick a side, you definitely look early 30s,” she went on. “Listen, y’all be trying to make a motherf—er feel bad about if they old or not, but a lot of y’all ain’t even guaranteed till 30. Gotta make sure my man doesn’t pull up before y’all. He see me on Live because he’s gonna be like [criticizing me], ‘Why you on Live telling them people your business?’ This fake outrage you are having, pull your panties out of your bunch.”
