A temporary schedule has been established between rapper 50 Cent and former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins, in regards to visitations with their 11-old-son Marquise.

50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, and former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins, have long fallen out of love. Publicly. Their son is only one piece of the puzzle in the matters they have yet to resolve between themselves.

Monday, an appearance at a Suffolk Family Court in Central Islip was just another reason for one of them to be content and the other to feel frustrated, as Judge David Freundlich ruled that Jackson would see Marquise every other weekend.

Tompkins would have probably preferred for Jackson to spend no time at all with the boy, as she has accused her former boyfriend of deliberately setting on fire the home she and Marquise had been living in until recently.

Jackson has denied the accusation. The May 30 blaze that destroyed the mansion where Tompkins and Marquise once lived affected six people, including the two of them, who were in the house at the time of the fire. They were all treated for smoke inhalation.

Judge Freundlich also issued an order of protection against the rapper, forbidding him from approaching his ex.

The two parties have agreed upon a neutral terrain - the 103rd Precinct in Queens, where Marquise is to be transferred from one parent to the other.

At the end of the meeting, Jackson told reporters he was “happy” he now had the “chance to see him,” as quoted by Newsday.

Tompkins’s lawyer Paul Katsandonis told the judge he had been too generous, awarding Jackson with more time than he can make good use of. Katsandonis said he “frankly” does not understand how “given his schedule” Jackson could see his son on alternate weekends. “We want to make sure that he’s going to be in a safe, nurturing environment,” he said of Marquise.

Jackson and Tompkins are to meet in court again on October 22.