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Entertainment reporter Robert James has to raise his son and deal with both the demands of his ex-wife and also those of his current girlfriend. In the opener, he gets the divorce papers to end one marriage and also tries to start up another by asking his son if he can marry Tia.

The competition intensifies between Neesee and Tia, who try to outdo each other by planning separate birthday parties for Bobby. Robert attempts to restore peace between the women and bring everyone together for one big birthday bash. At the party, Neesee and Robert remain amicable for their son's sake, but Bobby becomes confused, and his friends Darryl and Reggie mistakenly convince him that his parents are getting back together. DEBI MAZAR guest stars as Neesee's friend Alex.

When Robert allows Tia to keep some of her clothes in his house, she is pleased. But while cleaning out a closet, Tia finds Bobby's old crib and is disturbed by how possessive Robert becomes when Neesee tries to take it. Her fears about Robert's nostalgia for his old life are amplified when she watches a videotape of Robert and Neesee's touching wedding. Confused by Tia's behavior, Robert thinks she found a tape of him and Neesee having sex that he also possesses. After figuring out what really happened, Robert convinces Tia that he loves her more than he ever did Neesee, and his past experiences are what made him the man she loves.

Tia finds that she cannot escape Robert's ex-wife, Neesee--even in her own workplace--when Neesee volunteers to be the school's newest kindergarten "room mom." To make matters worse, Neesee forms an instant bond with Tia's best friend, Jonelle. Meanwhile, R&B singing sensation and actress BEYONCÉ KNOWLES reverses roles with Robert during an interview when she starts asking him personal questions.

After Tia uses Neesee's maiden name when forging her signature on one of Bobby Jr.'s permission slips, Neesee reveals that she intends to keep Robert's last name even though they're officially divorced.

Robert gets upset with Neesee when he learns from Bobby that Neesee is dating a new man--her handsome dentist Marcus. Robert insists that he meet any man who's going to be involved in his son's life. Later, Robert goes to Neesee's house and sees Bobby and Marcus playing with racecars. Robert becomes jealous and tries to compete with Marcus. As the two men discuss the difficulty of dating someone who has children, Neesee overhears an unpleasant remark from Marcus. She decides to stop seeing him and agrees to let Robert meet any other potential boyfriends.

When the station does a profile on Robert's home life, he insists that both his fiancée, Tia, and his exwife, Neesee, be included. But when Neesee is edited out of the version that airs, the kids at Bobby's school joke that Neesee must be the nanny. Meanwhile, Neesee retaliates by filing a complaint with school administrators that Tia and Robert's relationship is in violation of the rule against teachers dating students' parents. Later, when Robert demands that the story air with Neesee included, he discovers that management would rather fire him.

Since Tia spends so many nights at his house, Robert asks her to move in with him. Not everyone is happy about this suggestion--except Jonelle, who wants to sublet Tia's apartment. Dirk thinks Robert should enjoy what freedom he has left before marrying Tia. Neesee initially acts nonchalant, but Bobby sees her crying privately. At Robert's house, Bobby angrily throws Tia's clothes outside and refuses to speak to his dad about why he's upset. Finally, Dirk learns the truth from Bobby. Later, Neesee brings Bobby and his favorite game, Twister, to Robert's house where they all play, and Bobby sees that everything will be okay with the new living arrangements.

Jonny Scott (Executive Producer WILL SMITH - "Men in Black" films), a recently divorced college friend of Robert, Dirk and Neesee's, comes to town. After seeing Jonny and Neesee kiss, Robert isn't happy to learn that the two of them want to date. Later, Tia gets upset when she finds out that Robert doesn't support the budding relationship between his good friend and his ex-wife. Will Smith's children TREY and JADEN reprise their roles as Bobby's friends Darryl and Reggie, while recurring guest star DEBI MAZAR ("That's Life") returns as Neesee's friend Alex.

Now that they're living together, Robert and Tia worry that during Bobby Jr's increasingly frequent overnight stays he may have actually witnessed them having sex, and to make matters worse, they believe that Bobby Jr. has drawn a picture of what he saw and fear that he may show it to his mother Neesee. Meanwhile, Neesee starts a catering business.

When little Bobby witnesses Robert dressed as Santa Claus and kissing Tia, Bobby becomes furious that his future stepmother would kiss someone other than his father. Struggling to explain, Robert admits that he's not really Santa, and that someday Bobby will portray Santa for his own kids. However, this only confuses Bobby more, and Neesee tells Robert to restore Bobby's faith in the real Santa. Meanwhile, Tia is happy to host her recently widowered father, Lucas and a dear female friend of her deceased mother's--until she finds the two visitors in bed together. Christmas episode

Neesee's catering business with her partner and friend, Alex,is so successful that Bobby feels neglected. He misbehaves, fighting with his friend Reggie (recurring guest star JADEN SMITH, real-life son of executive producer WILL SMITH) and pulling the fire alarm during Robert's television show. At Robert's suggestion, Neesee quits her job to spend more time with Bobby, but Tia becomes angry that Robert would assume that Neesee should be the one to sacrifice career for family. With the women in his life in the rare position of agreeing with each other, Robert must make a difficult decision. Meanwhile, Dirk is enamored with a brilliant lawyer but cannot persuade anyone that he loves her mind as much as her body.

Despite Dirk's warnings that a man and a woman cannot be friends without eventually wanting to have sex, Robert welcomes Tia's oldest and dearest friend, Larry, to his home. Robert and Larry enjoy each other's company--until Larry drunkenly makes a toast and proclaims that he has always loved Tia. Although Tia is embarrassed and furious, Robert finds out something even more shocking that makes being angry at Larry very difficult. Meanwhile, Neesee and her friend Alex borrow Robert and Tia's kitchen for their catering business, and the contrast with Tia's poor culinary efforts is painfully obvious to everyone.

Neesee gets angry when she learns that Robert has taught their 5-year-old son, Bobby, how to box, especially after Bobby comes home from school with a black eye. Meanwhile, Alex works out with a new trainer, Scotty. Later, Jonelle must try to find a way to control her expensive shopping habits to avoid squandering all of her money, getting evicted and losing Tia's sublease.

Robert's best friend (Will Smith) comes to visit & starts dating Neesee.

Robert's finds out that his best friend (Will Smith) wants to marry Neesee.

Dirk's estranged brother reveals he has a sex-change operation. Meanwhile, Robert's mother collapses during a visit.

When Robert turns down his sister's Carmen's "get-rich-quick" scheme, she pleads her case to Tia, who decides to help her, but accidently gives Carmen money that was intended for Bobby Jr., so when Neesee's child support check bounces, a furious Neesee lets everyone know about it Meanwhile, Dirk and Jonelle try start a romance.

Although Tia wants to have their wedding on the beach or on a mountaintop, Robert is convinced that she really wants an expensive shindig. So, to make money extra money to pay for it, he appears in a TV commercial for a car dealership. Maybe, Bobby gives a girl he likes Neesee's old engagement ring.

Robert doesn't realize he has completely forgotten Tia's birthday until Neesee and Bobby arrive with a present, so he enlists Neesee's help to cater and arrange a party that's a surprise for everyone involved. Meanwhile, Tia mistakenly believes that Robert remembers her birthday and anticipates his surprise--but she doesn't expect to get stuck in the car while he reports on a stuntman union strike.

As Robert and Tia's wedding date approaches, Robert has unsettling sexual dreams involving Neesee, causing Tia to question her relationship with Robert after she realizes that spending the rest of her life with Robert also means spending the rest of her life with Neesee. All of the tension at home affects the tired couple, putting them out of synchronization at the gang's tango lessons, taught by Antonio.