Posted on Tue, Jul. 24, 2012

What in the world is going on with the Jackson family? Whatever it is, it’s getting uglier.

RadarOnline.com reports that the court-appointed attorney for Michael Jackson’s children, Margaret Lodise, will ask a judge to strip family matriarch Katherine Jackson’s guardianship of Paris, Prince and Blanket because Katherine has been out of town for more than a week. Lodise believes the kids aren’t safe after a physical altercation with Janet, Jermaine and and Randy Jackson.

Janet physically tried to take Paris’ cell phone from her, RadarOnline reported, and the children watched in horror as Jermaine and Randy got into a fight with Trent Jackson, Joe Jackson’s nephew. The scene, captured on surveillance camera, was shown on Tuesday’s Good Morning America.

“It was absolute utter chaos at the house. . . . Trent was simply trying to prevent the trio from taking the kids. Janet kept asking where the kids passports were!” a source told RadarOnline.

Katherine Jackson had disappeared for more than a week; she surfaced Monday in Arizona at her sister’s house.