A source close to Brad Pitt tells PEOPLE that the court’s decision “is a clear victory for Brad” in his lawsuit against Angelina Jolie over a French winery they co-owned.

Brad Pitt just scored an important victory in his current campaign legal battle with ex-wifeAngelina Jolie on the French vineyard Chateau Miraval.

In new court documents filed on Friday, Nov. 8, and obtained by PEOPLE on Monday, Nov. 11, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lia Martin denied three requests for stays — also known as motions to dismiss — recently. filed by Jolie’s legal team regarding Pitt’s own claims in court that Jolie had violated a verbal and written agreement not to sell her stakes in Miraval without the permission of both parties.

The ruling was in response to Jolie’s requests to dismiss three separate causes of action asserted by Pitt in a complaint filed in the case in April, in which Pitt’s lawyers claimed that the former couple’s companies, Mongo Bongo and Nouvel, “had concluded a written agreement”. agreement in 2013 to give each other a right of first refusal on any sale of their respective interests in Miraval” and that the written agreement “prevented Mondo Bongo and Nouvel from selling their interests without the consent of the other.”

This written agreement between the two companies, Pitt’s lawyers claimed in the April complaint, related to any sale of Miraval existed in addition to a verbal agreement between Jolie and Pitt to obtain each other’s consent before selling their shares in the cellar. According to the November 8 ruling, Jolie has 30 days to respond.

“This is a clear victory for Brad that demonstrates the legitimacy of his claims and demonstrates once again that the other side’s rhetoric is not supported by content,” a source close to Pitt told PEOPLE.

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Pitt, 60, originally Jolie continued.49 years old, for sell your stake at Château Miraval to a third party, Tenute del Mondo, the wine division of the Stoli Group, in 2022. The legal battle has sometimes overlapped with a separate conflict concerning the care of their children, half of whom have now reached the age of majority: Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

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Jolie and Pitt began dating in the mid-2000s after meeting on the set of their 2005 film. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and married in August. 23, 2014. Pretty filed for divorce on September 20, 2016.

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In August, a source told PEOPLE that Jolie was “actively moving beyond the past” days after ended his legal battle against the Department of Justice and the FBI over documents related to the allegations 2016 plane incident between her and Pitt.

“Being stuck in the past is not something Angie wants,” the source added at the time. “She wants to focus on her family, her work and her future. These are all things that make her happy.