💔 Cher’s heartbreaking battle to save her son is far from over. Cher is continuing her legal fight to place her son Elijah Blue Allman under a conservatorship as he remains in a locked psychiatric hospital following multiple arrests earlier this year. The latest court hearing has now been delayed until September after Elijah unsuccessfully asked to represent himself. The case has also become more complicated as a judge questioned whether California still has jurisdiction while he remains hospitalized in New Hampshire.

Cher is continuing her fight to put her troubled son, Elijah Blue Allman, under a conservatorship, but the issue has been complicated by his continued presence in a psychiatric hospital.

On Thursday, Allman appeared for a California court date via video from New Hampshire, where he’s in a locked facility, after back-to-back arrests in the state earlier this year. But the conservatorship case is now postponed to Sept. 1, due to Allman wanting to represent himself, a wish that was denied by Judge Jessica A. Uzcategui, according to Rolling Stone.

Further complicating the matter was the California judge being unsure if she even has jurisdiction.

“In the court investigator report, Mr. Allman has expressed no intention to return to California even once he’s released from the New Hampshire hospital,” she said. “And I understand that he may be held in New Hampshire up to a year and a half, and even then would be returned to a jail facility in New Hampshire or a treatment facility in New Hampshire. So under all of these circumstances, it doesn’t appear to me that Mr. Allman will be back in California for quite some time, if ever, and I questioned the court’s jurisdiction.”

Cher’s attorney, Justin Gold, insisted that Los Angeles County was the right place for this to be handled. “The stated preference for Mr. Allman is being made while he’s incarcerated in a mental institution, and he does not have capacity,” he declared. “The only reason he’s in New Hampshire right now is because he can’t leave. And for him to now say, ‘Oh, I’m not coming back to California,’ just to avoid jurisdiction here, that’s all this would be. His whole life is here.”

The judge requested Gold file a legal brief on the jurisdiction issue by July 16.

Cher previously looked to place Allman under a conservatorship in 2023, claiming he was “substantially unable to manage his financial resources” due to “severe mental health and substance abuse issues.” But the singer dropped her petition the following year after her son with the late musician Gregg Allman vowed to “change his lifestyle.”

Then, in February, Allman was arrested in Concord, N.H. and charged with two counts of simple assault, criminal trespass, criminal threatening, and disorderly conduct. Days later, he was arrested again in Windham, N.H., on charges of burglary, two counts of criminal mischief, and breach of bail.

This prompted Cher to once again file for a conservatorship, alleging in her petition that the drug dependency of her 49-year-old son is “at its worst.” She wrote that Allman “immediately” spends any money that he receives “almost exclusively” on “drugs, expensive hotels, and limousine transportation.”

The temporary conservatorship was denied, with the judge explaining that she didn’t believe Allman would be able to access his money from her father’s trust at the moment since he is facing legal charges and is hospitalized.

“It is my opinion that he is currently a danger to himself and unable to manage his life, and any funds that would become available to him,” Allman’s brother Devon reportedly wrote in his backing of the conservatorship. “My recent visit to check in on him brought me unfortunate and profound sadness that took weeks of my life to process. His condition, both physical and mental, was appalling and delusional, respectively.”

SOURCE: EW