Halle Berry‘s ex, Gabriel Aubry, wants to be recognized as the father of their 2 year-old daughter Nahla…..so on December 30th 2010, the Canadian male model filed a paternity petition to protect his fatherly rights.

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TMZ reports:

Here’s what we know.  Sources say Gabriel was afraid things were going to get rocky in establishing who gets to spend time with the 2-year-old, so he wanted to protect his rights.

Turns out … we’re told whatever differences Halle and Gabriel have … they’ve been pretty much worked out. Our sources say the former couple has not filed for child custody, visitation or support and they don’t plan to file — they have an arrangement they worked out between the two of them and don’t feel the need to go to court.

One source told TMZ … on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being nuclear war … Halle and Gabriel are a 2.

Hopefully they can work it out, and based on how things have gone thus-far it’s looks like they’re doing a pretty good job at it!

Thoughts?