Actor Sean Penn has filed a motion to withdraw or dismiss his petition for legal separation from wife Robin Wright Penn, just weeks after the papers were filed. All that is left is for a Marin County (California) Superior Court judge to sign off on the dismissal.

Wright Penn had not yet responded to Penn’s April 24 filing. She had 30 days under California’s rules of procedure to file her written response.

“[The filing] was an arrogant mistake,” Penn told the New York Daily News.

The dismissal sparks a serious case of deja vu. Penn and Wright Penn filed competing divorce actions in Marin County back in December 2007. That divorce case was dismissed at their request in April 2008. Fast forward a year, Penn won an Academy Award and curiously failed to thank Wright Penn in his acceptance speech. Within weeks, he filed for legal separation.

Penn’s petition indicated that he sought joint physical and legal custody of their children, daughter Dylan, 18 and son Hopper, 15 and hoped to avoid paying any spousal support to Wright Penn. Will we see these two in the family court again? My guess is probably so – but we’ll have to wait and see.

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Sean Penn Files for Separation