Their 6-year-old's hair is the latest point of contention in Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry's contentious shared custody arrangement. 
 
 The Oscar-winning actress took ex-boyfriend Aubry, the father of her daughter Nahla, back to court Monday because he allegedly had the child's hair straightened and colored, TMZ and E! News reported. 
 
 Though Berry didn't appear in court, her attorney accused the French-Canadian model of straightening Nahla's curly mane and lightening it with highlights in an attempt to make her appear less African American, the reports said. 
 
 The "X-Men: Days of Future Past" star, now married to French actor Olivier Martinez, had lawyer Steve Kolodny appear in court to argue her case, TMZ said, and a judge decided that neither parent could alter Nahla's hair color or texture and ruled that her hair be allowed grow back naturally. 
 
 Berry, 48, and Aubry, 39, who dated for two years before splitting in 2010, have joint custody of Nahla and have been embroiled in bitter court and physical battles over her care since then. In November 2012, Aubry was arrested after getting into a fistfight with Berry's then-fiance, Martinez, and just last month, Berry reportedly moved to reduce her child-support payments to the unemployed model from $16,000 a month to less than $4,000 to motivate him to get a job. 
 
 Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubrey in 2009 Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry arrive at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 22, 2009 in West Hollywood. They're no longer a couple but they have a child together, Nahla. Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry arrive at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 22, 2009 in West Hollywood. They're no longer a couple but they have a child together, Nahla. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images) 
 
 Back in 2011, at the height of their custudy dispute, the mixed-race actress told Ebony magazine (via E!) that she wanted her daughter to choose how she's identified but considered Nahla to be black. Aubry is white. 
 
 "I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That's how I identified myself," Berry said at the time. "But I feel like she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory." 
 
 The actress was referring to the controversial legal and sociological notion of the "one-drop rule," pre-dating the civil rights movement, by which any person with even "one drop" of blood from a black ancestor was deemed to be black. 
 
 "If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself, and I think that's often hard for us to do," she continued. "I identify as a black woman, but I've always had to embrace my mother and the white side of who I am too. 
 
 "By choosing, I've often [wondered], 'Well, would that make her feel like I'm invalidating her by choosing to identify more with the black side of myself?'" 
 
 Berry's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 For more celebrity news, follow me on Twitter @NardineSaad. ||||| Halle Berry has reportedly made a move aimed at decreasing her child-support payments to ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, the father of her daughter Nahla, and motivating him to get a job. 
 
 The "X-Men: Days of Future Past" actress is claiming that her ex has been living entirely off her $16,000-a-month child-support payments and has asked a judge to reduce her obligation to just over $3,000 a month, according to TMZ, which cited confidential court documents. 
 
 The Oscar winner is alleging that the French model has stopped working, despite being capable of getting a job, and is abusing the system by living off the payments meant to support their 6-year-old daughter. The parents have joint custody. 
 
 Aubry, 39, and Berry, 48, dated for two years before Nahla was born in 2008. They broke up in 2010 and have been embroiled in a custody dispute since then. In 2012, a judge blocked Berry from moving Nahla to France with her and Olivier Martinez, who would become her third husband in July 2013. (Berry and Martinez welcomed their first child together, son Maceo, in October 2013.) 
 
 The former couple reached a settlement in May that outlined the nearly $200,000 a year the "Extant" star would pay in child support, in addition to paying for Nahla's tuition until she turns 19 or graduates from high school. She and Aubry must split her healthcare expenses. 
 
 Photos The extreme things celebrities do to be good parents: the good, the bad and the ugly. By Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times 
 
 Berry's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 I'd consider sitting pretty for $16,000 a month. Follow me on Twitter @NardineSaad. ||||| A lot of mothers don't want just anyone touching their kids' hair. And when it comes to Halle Berry, that includes her kid's father. 
 
 Attorneys for the Oscar winner and her ex, model Gabriel Aubry, were in court Monday morning to settle a disagreement over their 6-year-old daughter Nahla's hair, E! News confirms. 
 
 Apparently Berry objected to Aubry to having the child's hair straightened and highlighted when she's in his care, charging that the French-Canadian model, who is white, was trying to make Nahla appear less African-American. (Berry herself is the daughter of a white mother and a black father.) ||||| Halle to Gabriel You're Trying to Make Our Daughter White! 
 
 Halle Berry to Gabriel Aubry -- You're Trying to Make Our Kid White! 
 
 EXCLUSIVE 
 
 just tookto court ... claiming he's trying to make their 6-year-old daughter white.Halle was furious Gabriel was straightening Nahla's naturally-curly hair, lightening it with highlights and she is convinced it's because he does not want the girl to appear to be African American.Halle didn't show in court Monday morning, but her lawyer Steve Kolodny did, along with Gabriel and after a lot of arguing the judge ruled NEITHER Halle nor Gabriel could change Nahla's look from its natural state.So the judge is allowing Nahla's hair to grow back naturally.Score one for Berry.
– Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have long stood as models of how not to treat the person with whom you're co-parenting a child (see: brawl, citizen's arrest, insane child support), but they've taken their bickering over daughter Nahla to a new low: As TMZ reports, Berry hauled Aubry back into court on Monday, and the subject of contention was Nahla's hair, which Berry claims Aubry has been straightening and lightening in an apparent attempt to make the 6-year-old look less African American. (Aubry is white and Berry is biracial, notes E! Online). The judge ruled that neither parent can alter Nahla's hair. Berry identifies both herself and her daughter as black, notes the LA Times, saying in a 2011 interview that "I feel like she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother." Berry last month sought to reduce her child support payments to Aubry, adds the Times; she currently pays $16,000 a month and reportedly wants it cut to less than $4,000 to prompt the unemployed model to get a job.