Judge extends order in Courtney Love custody case

A Los Angeles judge extended a custody order restricting Courtney Love’s access to her teenage daughter.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A Los Angeles judge on Thursday extended a custody order restricting Courtney Love's access to her teenage daughter, Frances Bean, her child with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that an order issued in December, which transferred custody of the 17-year-old to Cobain's mother and sister, would remain in effect until April 9.

Reasons for the custody battle are unknown, but it isn't the first time Love, 45, has experienced such problems.

Bean was taken under the care of her grandmother in 2003 after Love was arrested for possession of drugs without a prescription.

Love has had a long history of debt, arrests over drugs and parole violations since Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, near the height of the grunge-rock band's success.