VIDEO: Levi Johnston has a lawyer

By GottaLaff



And now we return to today's episode of "As the Stomach Turns". We last saw our young lad Levi Johnston, new father, son of Sherry, on the Larry King Show, putting up his dukes in preparation for a legal battle over Baby Tripp:

Teen father Levi Johnston dropped a bombshell into the middle of the escalating family feud between Johnston’s family and the family of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose eldest daughter is the mother of Johnston’s infant son.

In an interview with CNN’s Larry King, Johnston, his mother, and his sister acknowledged that they have a lawyer and are contemplating taking legal action to protect Johnston’s parental rights.

“That is what we’re going to have to do next,” Johnston’s mother, Sherry, said Wednesday on Larry King Live. “We were just hoping that we wouldn’t have to,” Sherry Johnston also said.

But “that is the step we’re going to have to go,” Johnston’s mother said later in the interview.

And who wouldn't listen to the advice a drug pusher?

While the young father and his mother at times appeared hesitant about the prospect of taking formal legal action, Mercede Johnston, Levi Johnston’s younger sister, seemed anxious to get the brewing custody battle in front a judge.

“I hope it happens soon, to be honest” Mercede Johnston said. “I want that baby in my life just as much as he does.”

Levi Johnston also told King that he is not paying any child support to Bristol Palin right now. “I got everything my boy needs back home – diapers, toys, everything. Once we go to court, we’ll deal with that.” [...]

Johnston and his family told King that Johnston is permitted to visit with his son at the Palin home but is not permitted to take the child away from the home.

Will Levi get joint custody long enough to take little Tripp on a rip-roaring snow mobile joy ride? Will Mama Sherry spike Sarah Palin's moose juice with enough Oxycontin to achieve compliance and avoid a nasty court battle? Will the judge order that the Palin family stop choosing oddball names for their babies?

All these questions-- and more-- will be addressed on the next episode of... "As the Stomach Turns".