After their 9-year marriage and the divorce Basinger and Baldwin don't seem to stand each other any longer. Practically the two hardly see eye to eye. The bitterness comes from certain aspects of the custody of their 11-year-old daughter, Ireland.

The divorce and the custody fight that ensued have already cost Alec Baldwin $1.25 million dollars (for court expenses and lawyers) and made him take into consideration writing a book about the divorce and custody proceedings.

This time Baldwin is angry because the visitation time with his daughter he has been legally entitled to was in his opinion obstructed by ex-wife.

Baldwin's busy schedule (he stars in hit-play Entertaining Mr. Sloane) leaves him only one free day each week so he has to fly to L.A. in order to spend some time with his daughter, then fly back to work.

The actor claims former life partner Kim Basinger arranged her schedule on purpose so his own business won't fit in at all. He asks the court to let him „recover" or „make up" for the time he was allowed to spend with his daughter but he couldn't benefit of due to Basinger's so called „evil schemes."