Actress Mia Farrow has been awarded custody of her three children in a dispute with her former lover, Woody Allen, her lawyer said Monday.

State Supreme Court Judge Elliott Wilk also barred the filmmaker for at least six months from visiting with Dylan, 7, the adopted daughter he was accused of abusing, said Farrow's lawyer, Eleanor Alter.Allen and his longtime leading lady parted in January 1992, after Farrow found naked photographs of her oldest adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, 22, in his apartment.

Their custody fight began last August after Farrow accused Allen of molesting Dylan during a visit to her home in Bridgewater, Conn. An independent team of sex-abuse experts said the girl hadn't been molested.

The ruling comes a month after the end of a bitter public trial.

"It's everything I wanted to protect this family," Alter said on emerging from the courtroom where she read Wilk's decision. "The only thing I regret is that everybody had to be put through this, emotionally and financially."

Allen, 57, was granted supervised visitation with Satchel, 5, the couple's biological son. The judge ruled that there would be no visitation with Moses, who is their 15-year-old adopted son, unless Moses wants it.

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Allen's visits with Satchel will be limited to two hours, three times a week.

According to Alter, Allen must pay legal costs of the litigation.

The custody trial lasted seven weeks.

Separately, Farrow has asked Surrogate Court to undo Allen's adoption of Moses and Dylan. Farrow said Allen defrauded her and the court by concealing that he was sexually involved with Previn. A hearing in that court was to be held Wednesday.

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