Battles over Jackson's kids, assets may loom

Michael Jackson's three kids are with the singer's mother and "are doing fine," a lawyer for the Jackson family said Friday.

"They are in the care of a nanny," Brian Oxman told Us Weekly.

"Mrs. Jackson will care for them and I'm sure there will be all kinds of discussions that will take place about the kids."

The three kids - Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7 - were often hidden behind masks by their oddball dad.

The two older children were born during Jackson's brief marriage to Debbie Rowe, while Prince Michael II was delivered by a surrogate mother Jackson never met.

While the kids are now with Katherine Jackson, a 79-year-old mother of 10, Rowe may be poised to fight for custody of the older two.

It's been widely reported she gave up her parental rights, but TMZ.com said she never completed that process under California law.

As a result, she's still the legally recognized mother and could take custody of Prince Michael and Paris unless a court determines it would be "detrimental to the children."

In general, Jackson's children were kept out of the spotlight that followed him everywhere.

But in 2002, Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket, was famously dangled off a hotel balcony by his pop as as onlookers below screamed.

Jackson later admitted the baby-dangling stunt was "a terrible mistake" and that he "got caught up in the excitement of the moment."

Oxman said the three children are "well-trained, well educated and extraordinarily talented. They get to play with their cousins and their nieces and their nephews. They are just smarter than smart can be."

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