The Connecticut choose dealing with Liz Cho and Josh Elliott’s tumultuous divorce is demanding {that a} trial happen as scheduled in December, no matter their subsequent arbitration assembly.
The fighters — who’ve been battling in courtroom for greater than a 12 months — agreed to resolve particular divorce points by way of arbitration, which is when an neutral third get together listens to each events and reaches a binding settlement, this month.
Nonetheless, in courtroom paperwork obtained completely by Web page Six, Choose Steven Dembo wrote in a September order that he accredited arbitration, however that the trial would happen it doesn’t matter what on December 14-21.
“The case has been occurring for 412 days and the trial has continued a number of occasions,” Dembo wrote of the exes’ ongoing back-and-forth.
In line with courtroom paperwork, the arbitration will cowl “all points that the Superior Courtroom would have within the occasion of the dissolution of the events’ marriage.”
This consists of figuring out alimony, dividing property, and paying lawyer and skilled charges.
The arbitrator, who’s a retired choose, can have the authority to discover a get together in contempt and impose sanctions. The choose will decide no later than 30 days after the assembly.
Elliott, 55, filed for divorce from Cho, additionally 55, on June 20, 2025, after almost 10 years of marriage, Web page Six completely reported.
The anchors have been at odds from the beginning, as Cho has requested copies of Elliott’s communications with “anybody…with whom [he] has or had a romantic and/or sexual relationship, from July 11, 2015 to the current day” – in addition to any “communication associated to [his] searching for a job”, in a courtroom file dated November 6, 2025.
Then, in a Jan. 29 courtroom submitting, the “Eyewitness Information” anchor accused her ex of shifting a “vital quantity of furnishings and furnishings” from their Connecticut house, together with their two Portuguese water canines.
She additionally claimed {that a} watch and earrings have been lacking from her jewellery bag, with Elliott being “the one different individual with entry to the lacking watch and jewellery.”
Elliott’s legal professionals denied Cho’s allegations in courtroom paperwork, saying Cho had “escalating and erratic conduct directed not solely at [Elliott] but in addition his minor youngster.
He defined in a separate submitting: “[Elliott] eliminated solely a restricted variety of furnishings and furnishings, many from the basement, solely to furnish a brand new residence after eradicating himself and his youngster from a hostile setting created by [Cho].”
Elliott later accused her in courtroom paperwork of “monitoring and listening [Elliott’s] personal phone calls; rummage [Elliott’s] private results and closet; leaving the marital residence for prolonged intervals with out communication regardless of the presence of two canines requiring every day care.
The previous CBS anchor additionally claimed that his estranged spouse “attacked him” whereas he was “washing grapes for his daughter’s lunch, exclaiming that the grapes have been his and he wasn’t allowed to place them within the kid’s lunch.”
Web page Six reported in August that Cho filed a movement for a protecting order to forestall Elliott’s authorized group from continuing with a deposition scheduled for July 23, 2026, saying she was “observed with none investigation into the provision of [Cho] and his recommendation.
The request for a protecting order additionally confirmed that Cho objected to Elliott’s authorized group asking him to offer a sequence of paperwork, together with “copies of any written correspondence, emails, playing cards, textual content messages or any type of written communication between you and any individual, aside from the applicant, with whom you could have or had a romantic and/or sexual relationship from July 11, 2015 to June 23, 2025.”
Though Cho objected to the manufacturing request, she finally agreed to show over the communications throughout a courtroom listening to in July.
Cho and Elliott – who every have a toddler from earlier relationships – started courting after they met whereas working at ABC. They bought married in July 2015, which was their second marriage.
Elliott was an anchor on “Good Morning America” from 2011 to 2014. He later labored for NBC and CBSN. He’s not at present employed by any community.
As for Cho, she has held her place for many years with “Eyewitness Information.”