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Sixteen visits. Six supervisors. Every observer reports the same thing: Steve is attentive, Evie is happy. The supervisors keep changing. The court declines to read a favorable report. The visits stop for five months. The court grants sole custody anyway.
Steve files a detailed memorandum describing the ambush, the supervision manipulation, and the historical abuse inside the Walsh household. The court destabilizes. The judge recuses. The case is reassigned.
Aunt K undergoes surgery days before the hearing. Steve's attorneys request remote appearance at a visitation conference. At the last minute — the afternoon before — the court denies the request. Steve books the next available flight, 6:20 the next morning. When he arrives, Judge Horowitz has already entered a default — granting permanent custody and a two-year order of protection at what was scheduled as a status conference. Fourteen months later, his motion to vacate is still pending when the third judge recuses.