Jon Gosselin has fired his new attorney – the one who called Kate an “absentee parent” and who two weeks ago filed legal papers seeking full custody of the kids for Jon.

“Kate, her attorneys and I are moving forward to work out things privately and amicably,” Jon Tweeted Thursday morning.

And, as for his ex-legal representative? “Mr. Anthony List Sr., Esq., is not my representing attorney; I terminated him on April 15, 2010. He has no legal right to speak to the press or anyone on my behalf.”

List had told People that he was a longtime friend of Jon’s late father, Tom, and promised the elder Gosselin shortly before his death that he would help Jon if ever the need arose.

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Jon Gosselin’s lawyer, former assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony F. List, tells TMZ “under the right circumstances” Jon would do a show with Kate, but “the contract would have to be tighter.” He did not elaborate, but we’re guessing it has something to do with the way TLC cleaned Jon’s clock in court.

List did not say what type of show he’d like to do, but said having Jon and Kate around the kids more would be a definite plus.

List says Jon would “love to settle” the latest legal dispute he ignited. TMZ broke the story that Jon filed legal papers asking for primary custody and child support. But Jon will press on with the case, unless Kate gives up her “global commitments.” According to List, Jon feels Kate can’t have it both ways — being both a star and an attentive parent.

List says he and Jon both feel Kate is “addicted to the paparazzi.” He says even if Kate is booted from “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday, he won’t drop his custody case because Kate is “caught up in the glamour of Hollywood” and will take other jobs.

Now if Kate brings Jon along for the Hollywood tour, well apparently that’s a whole other Oprah.

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From TMZ:

Jon Gosselin has just filed legal papers formally asking a Pennsylvania judge for primary custody of the 8 kids he had with Kate Gosselin.

Jon also wants the child support order that is currently in place reviewed by the judge. Jon claims the arbitrator in the divorce “failed to take into consideration the numerous factors provided for by the law in PA.”

TMZ broke the story that Jon’s lawyer, Anthony F. List, feels Kate is an “absentee mom” now that she is in Hollywood on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Kate currently has primary custody and Jon is required to pay $20,000 a month in child support.

Here’s my opinion. Kate says she has to work to support her family. This is why she says she took the DWTS job – to support her family. My question is – how does $20,000 in child support NOT support her children? How much money does she need!? I think that she should have never gone on the show, she does seem like a fame-hungry person to me. If she was really worried about her kids welfare, she’d quit everything else – and just be with them, and live off the $20,000 checks she gets every month from Jon.

I think the 8 children should be given to the Duggar family, what’s 8 more kids? Imagine the ratings!

Ex-spouses Jon and Kate Gosselin may be headed back to court.

An attorney for Jon, 33, plans to file an emergency petition this week in Berks County, Penn., for primary physical custody of his eight children with ex-wife Kate, TMZ reports.

The reality dad’s new lawyer Anthony F. List tells TMZ that Kate, 35, is “an absentee mom.” List says her current stint on Dancing with the Stars prohibits her from spending “quality time” with twins Cara and Mady, 9, and sextuplets Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah, 5. (Kate and DWTS partner Tony Dovolani have been rehearsing in the basement of the $1.1 million Wernersville, Penn. home she shares with her kids.)

Also on the docket: the child support situation. Currently, Jon pays Kate $22,000 a month in child support. The attorney charges that the fee is “ridiculous,” and he may ask a judge to reverse the arrangement and demand that Kate pay Jon, though he declined to specify how much.

A source close to Jon tells UsMagazine.com that he “seems genuinely upset that the kids are growing up with strangers most of the time. Even when Kate’s at the house, she has a nanny there to do all the work.”

The source also adds that “Jon is anxious to find a place of his own close to the kids so he can have a little more stability for them,” and has been house-hunting near the Wernersville house. He presently lives in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that rents for $5000 a month.

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While his ex-wife, Kate Gosselin, is strutting her stuff on Dancing With the Stars, Jon Gosselin is going to be spending his nights alone. Morgan Christie, 25, Jon’s third girlfriend since his divorce from Kate last June, has kicked — or rolled — the former Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad out of the Santa Barbara residence where he was languishing and packing on pounds. “It was five months of his pure laziness and her mounting frustration,” a pal close to Morgan tells In Touch exclusively. “She couldn’t take it anymore. He was lying around all day long, not contributing to anything and not working. He doesn’t even have his own friends. He even mooched his social life off of her.”

Jon and Morgan met in Park City, Utah, in late 2009, but kept their relationship under the radar. “They were so into each other at first; he put on the whole show for her family just like he did with Hailey Glassman and her parents,” the pal reveals. But Jon was forced to pack up his stuff on March 21 and hit the road. “She’s very relieved.”

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If Playgirl ever asks Jon Gosselin, 32, to pose nude, he may be a little insulted by the offer. “We discussed it, and we’d offer him only $20,000,” Playgirl rep Daniel Nardicio tells Life & Style exclusively. “His star is extinguishing, and he’s not very [well endowed]” — as Jon’s exes Hailey Glassman and Kate Major both recently revealed. “Honestly,” says Nardicio, “it’d be more of a novelty than an actual sexy shoot.”

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