Sources told ABC News that Rowe is willing to forego a fight for the children if their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, allows her more time to visit and guarantees that their grandfather, Joe Jackson, whom Michael accused of abuse, would never be named a guardian.

Though still legally married, Katherine lives apart from Joe Jackson, who has been talking up the show business skills of the Jackson children amid speculation that he might try to form them into a band called the Jackson 3.

Michael Jackson died June 25, aged 50, of cardiac arrest.