Brad Pitt has been handed a big win when it comes to his ongoing custody battle with Angelina Jolie, after a ruling which will force the actress to allow him to have more visitation with their six children.

Just one week after the pair's joint statement about keeping the records for their case sealed and private, a judge reportedly ruled that Pitt be allowed to have more visitation with Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, after Jolie constantly canceled visits and made it difficult for Pitt to see them since filing for divorce back in September.

According to Life and Style, Pitt will be getting more visitation with the kids, but it's unclear how much more often and weather or not those visits will still be supervised.

Part of what has reportedly helped Pitt is the fact that many have perceived Jolie as trying to push a smear campaign against him in the public eye, one which failed considerably, and was made more obvious after he was received so warmly by a roomful of his peers during his brief appearance at the Golden Globes on Jan. 8.

"it really sent a message about how people have seen him as acting responsibly during Angelina's entire smear campaign against him," a source told the magazine. "There's no question Brad has won this battle."

In addition, the source claims that even those who initially supported Jolie in the divorce are turning against her as she continues to try and find ways to destroy her estranged husband's reputation in an effort to retain sole custody of the kids, and that the battles are even causing staffers to threaten that they will quit their jobs.

"There are huge disagreements between members of her team. They are fighting. Some of them don't like her campaign against Brad," the source added. "One key individual in her camp even threatened to quit because [she] failed to recognize that after the FBI and DCFS had cleared Brad [of abuse allegations], there just weren't any grounds for her to get sole custody of the kids."

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