ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) – Former Gov. James E. McGreevey is seeking custody of his 5-year-old daughter and child support from his estranged wife.

The revised divorce lawsuit by the nation’s first openly gay governor does not mention the matrimonial settlement agreement that McGreevey originally said had resolved all custody and support issues concerning his daughter, Jacqueline.

McGreevey’s wife, Dina Matos, has 35 days to respond to the revised filing.

The papers were filed last month in Union County Superior Court and were first reported on in Tuesday’s editions of The Star-Ledger of Newark.

They ask the judge to assign McGreevey primary custody, to award visitation to the noncustodial parent and to award him “suitable support and maintenance.”

Neither McGreevey nor Matos could be reached for comment Tuesday. Matos’ lawyer, John Post, did not return a call for comment.

“Obviously, the settlement discussions aren’t going too well,” McGreevey confidant Sen. Raymond Lesniak said Tuesday.

Lesniak said he would not reveal the content of any private conversations with the former governor.

Matos countered McGreevey’s original filing claims, saying last month that the two “continue to have profound differences about what our daughter should be exposed to, and until they are resolved, there will be no agreement.”

McGreevey and his wife have lived apart since November, 2004. That’s when McGreevey resigned for having had an affair with a male staffer.

The relationship between the couple has been subject to much speculation since McGreevey’s nationally-televised resignation speech, in which his wife stood at his side, a dazed look on her face. People openly wondered whether Matos McGreevey knew her husband was gay and whether she willingly helped hide his homosexuality to advance his political career.

Matos McGreevey, who is executive director of the Columbus Hospital Foundation in Newark, has repeatedly declined requests for interviews since McGreevey resigned. She has written a book, Silent Partner, scheduled for publication May 1.

McGreevey, who has been married twice, now lives with partner Mark O’Donnell in Plainfield. He has a 14-year-old daughter, Morag, from his first marriage.

Matos and Jacqueline live in Springfield.