Court Grants Goga Babic Custody, Gacic Reveals New Love

A court ruled on September 8 that the marriage between singers Goga Babic and Marko Gacic is over, and granted custody of their shared children to Goga. The hearing was scheduled several months after the couple filed for divorce.

Goga showed up to the hearing in person. Marko did not appear, and only his lawyer sat in the courtroom. The court decided the children would stay with their mother, who was granted sole parental rights. That means Goga now has full authority over decisions concerning the children.

Gacic was ordered to pay child support, though the amount was not disclosed. Under the court’s ruling, he has the right to see the children once a week and every other weekend, with the rest of the time spent with their mother. The reason cited for the divorce is Marko’s relationship with another woman, with whom the singer is expecting a child.

While the ruling was still pending, Goga explained to reporters how the two had agreed to separate. “We sat down like two adults and settled it by agreement,” the singer said in comments to the media about the divorce. She added that the reason she and her ex husband still need to stay in touch remains the same even after the ruling. “Because of the children we have to stay in touch. We have to talk to each other and coordinate,” Goga explained.

Social media has spent days discussing the fact that Goga, despite reverting to her maiden name Babic after the divorce, still appears as Gacic on Instagram. The singer addressed that too. “If I changed my last name, I would lose my verification for a while. We actually tried to change it using my old passport, but Instagram doesn’t allow that,” Goga said.

A few hours after the ruling, Marko Gacic spoke up as well. He posted a photo on Instagram with the woman he cheated on Goga with and with whom he is expecting a baby, captioned simply: “Life is beautiful.”

The post immediately triggered a wave of reactions, mostly negative. Comments piled up under the photo from followers, including: “He’s terrible, he didn’t even show up to court and now he’s bragging,” “This is not a man,” and “What exactly is he bragging about…”

The timeline of the story is straightforward. Goga and Marko filed for divorce several months before today’s hearing. During that period, Goga repeatedly discussed the reasons behind the split, stressing that everything, including child support, had been settled by agreement, and that she and Marko were in contact solely because of their child, who regularly sees and calls his father.

Today brought the official ruling. The marriage is over, custody rests with Goga, and visitation has been precisely set at once a week and every other weekend. A few hours later, Marko drew public attention back to himself with his Instagram post, this time over a photo with his new girlfriend and the backlash it triggered from his followers.

Goga has not commented on Marko’s post so far. Her earlier statements that contact between the two of them is limited strictly to arrangements about their child remain, based on everything said up to now, the only thing the singer has publicly said about her relationship with her ex husband since the divorce.

Up until the ruling itself, both had shown the public that getting through the divorce without additional conflict mattered more to them than trading barbs through the media. Goga repeated several times that her ex husband regularly sees and calls the children, and that this is not in question for her regardless of how their marriage ended. Marko, on the other hand, had barely addressed the divorce publicly until today, so the post with his new girlfriend, just hours after the ruling, was the first glimpse of his side, though not in the form of a statement, but through a photo and three words underneath it. That very choice, to mark the ruling in exactly that way, drew the most reaction from both former spouses’ followers.