Chelsea Houska and Ex Adam Lind’s Ups and Downs Over the Years: From Custody Battles to Copacetic Coparenting

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Chelsea Houska and Ex Adam Lind's Ups and Downs Over the Years: From Custody Battles to Copacetic Coparenting

No more drama for this mama. Teen Mom 2 alums Chelsea Houska and ex Adam Lind have had a tumultuous relationship for years, but the intensity has cooled off after more than a decade of court battles and more. “There’s no bad vibes and it’s just a very open relationship. There’s no bad feelings. We see him sometimes and it’s totally fine,” Houska exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2023 about her coparenting relationship with Lind, with whom she shares daughter Aubree. As MTV viewers know, however, this was hardly the case for years. The mom of four — the Down Home Fab star also shares son Watson and daughters Layne and Walker with husband Cole DeBoer — gave birth to her eldest child in 2009 when she was 18 years old. She and Lind already had a rocky relationship before Aubree was born, but things only grew much worse once the baby arrived. While Houska stepped up to the plate to be a parent to her daughter, Lind rarely visited and sent his then-girlfriend a scathing text message that implied he wanted to terminate his parental rights to Aubree. “You fat stretch mark bitch,” he called Houska in a text message on her 2010 episode of 16 and Pregnant. “Tell me where and when to sign the rights over for that mistake." [jwplayer ESBKdXpW-zhNYySv2] After years of an on-and-off relationship with Houska, Lind welcomed his second daughter, Paislee, in 2013 with then-girlfriend Taylor Halbur. Though he did not terminate his rights to Aubree, he did ultimately give up his rights to Paislee, as Houska told DeBoer in a 2019 episode of Teen Mom 2. “[Adam] can’t see her at all,” the Lily and Lottie designer said to her husband. “The judge said, ‘You realize this is forever?’ to him and he said, ‘Yeah.'” Though Lind is no longer in Paislee’s life, he is still in Aubree’s. (For their part, Houska and Halbur also occasionally get together with their daughters.) It took a long time for Lind to get to that place, however — he was frequently absent from his daughter’s childhood and was reportedly arrested in 2022 for not paying child support for Aubree. “There’s no doubt that [Adam’s behavior] has to hurt her, will hurt her, deep down someday,” Houska shared on the 2019 Teen Mom 2 reunion while praising her husband’s presence in Aubree’s life. “I’m grateful that she has someone like Cole,” the former MTV personality said. “You know, who has gone above and beyond [for her].” Keep scrolling to see Houska and Lind’s ups and downs over the years:

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2009

Houska and Lind welcomed daughter Aubree Skye in September 2009.

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2010 to 2013

Lind and Houska’s rocky relationship played out on Teen Mom 2 for years, with the on-off couple breaking up and getting back together again numerous times, repeatedly leaving Houska devastated. Their relationship ended for good after Halbur and Lind welcomed their daughter in 2013 and the Aubree Says founder met her future husband in 2014.

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2013

Lind and Halbur welcomed their own daughter, Paislee — Aubree’s half-sister.

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2015

Despite Lind taking Houska to court over child custody — wanting 50/50 custody of their daughter — Houska retained full custody of Aubree. In the 2015 Teen Mom 2 episode that aired the footage, the HGTV star also revealed that her ex was arrested at the end of his court appearance for failing to pay Halbur child support.

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2017

Lind gave up his parental rights to daughter Paislee, who was later adopted by Halbur’s husband, Joe Leonard — though he did not change his status as Aubree’s father.

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2018

Houska was overwhelmed with emotion after facing Lind in court — and upon finding out the court sided in her favor (twice over), allowing Aubree to change her last name to Lind-DeBoer and allowing Lind’s visits with his daughter to be limited to a visitation center.

“Dad! They agreed to her name change,” she excitedly shared on the phone with her dad, Randy, on the episode of Teen Mom 2. “They agreed to have his visits at the visitation center as long as his parents get one weekend a month that he can’t be present for.”

She started crying when the realization hit. “This is the first time I have the same last name as her," Houska told her father.

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2019

Tensions rose in the DeBoer household when Houska and her husband discovered that Lind’s parents weren’t following the court order that Lind was not supposed to be present when Aubree was visiting her grandparents.

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2021

Despite all of the drama over the past decade, Houska exclusively told Us that her coparenting relationship with Lind had improved. “It actually hasn’t been too bad,” she said of coparenting with her ex during the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel like we’re in a good place right now with all of that.”

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2022

Lind was reportedly arrested for not paying child support for Aubree.

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February 2023

Even in the wake of Lind's reported arrest, the South Dakota native shared with Us that things were copacetic with their coparenting relationship. “There’s no bad vibes and it’s just a very open relationship. There’s no bad feelings. We see him sometimes and it’s totally fine,” she told Us, explaining that “there really is just no drama” with Lind anymore.