Halle Berry's custody dispute with ex Olivier Martinez just got a new price tag. Fresh court filings reviewed by TMZ show Martinez is asking a Los Angeles judge to order Berry to pay roughly $240,000 toward his legal bills from their fight over their 13-year-old son, Maceo.

According to TMZ's review of the documents, the request breaks down into $176,522.58 in fees Martinez says he already owes attorneys, plus another $63,477.42 earmarked for fees still to come in the ongoing case. In his own financial filing, the French actor claims average monthly income of just $776.34 in residuals against roughly $17,556 in monthly expenses, arguing his legal costs have "exploded" beyond what he can afford on his own.

A custody fight that just turned

The fee request lands days after Martinez won a major round in the underlying custody battle. On Oct. 29, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge dissolved a temporary restraining order Martinez had sought against Berry and gave him primary physical custody of Maceo, according to NBC Los Angeles and ABC News. Under the new arrangement, Berry gets Maceo on Mondays and Tuesdays plus alternating weekends — a step down from the 50-50 split the former couple had shared.

The custody fight turned contentious after Martinez alleged that during a Sept. 26 incident, Berry physically confronted Maceo while he was playing a VR game, and that the boy later texted his father describing the encounter as abuse. Berry denied the allegation outright in an Oct. 5 court filing, saying the two had simply been play-wrestling.

"I have never physically, emotionally or otherwise abused Maceo," Berry wrote in her filing, adding she "would never hurt our child."

Martinez's attorney, Patrick Baghdaserians, called the custody outcome a "child-focused result" and said his client "values Maceo above his own mental health." Berry's attorney, Marina Beck, said the team was "extremely pleased" that the restraining order was dissolved and that Berry remains focused on her family's well-being.

Berry and Martinez married in 2013, split two years later, and didn't finalize their divorce until 2023 after an eight-year legal process. The new custody arrangement is only temporary — both sides are due back in court this month to revisit it, meaning the fee fight could easily tangle with yet another custody hearing before it's resolved. There's no ruling yet on Martinez's fee request, and Berry's team has not publicly responded to it.