We have a feeling this is just getting started!

Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie's custody battle over son Rocco will be heard in a U.S. court, a U.K. judge ruled this morning. The former couple have been at odds since December 2015, when Rocco left Madonna's Rebel Heart world tour and decided he wanted to live with his father in London. The judge threw the book at them, though, urging them to find an "amicable solution" for the sake of their child and his remaining childhood years.

"I renew, one final time, my plea for both parents to seek and to find an amicable resolution to the dispute between them. As I observed during the course of the hearing, summer does not last forever. The boy very quickly becomes the man. It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the previous and fast receding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute," London-based Justice MacDonald said during a Monday hearing.

"[It is] far better for each of his parents to spend that time enjoying, in turn, the company of the mature, articulate and reflective young man who is their son and who is a very great credit to them both," MacDonald added.

Madge better have the best lawyer money can buy, because this doesn't sound like an easy win!