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A supervised visit after the emergency order. Steve surrenders California jurisdiction over custody to see his daughter. The grandparents bring Evie to a parking lot in Chappaqua. Maura refuses to let go. Walsh Sr. intervenes. The child calms in her father's arms and cries when she sees her grandmother.
The court appoints a supervisor who promises integrity and transparency. She meets privately with Tara before the first visit, invites her to attend in violation of the court order, dismisses Steve's concerns about being poisoned, and tells him she has a special relationship with the judge. She charges $250 an hour. The judge who appointed her later says on the record that she never wanted Tara at the visits and wanted Steve to die on his own sword, so the court would know.
His attorney was in the courtroom. He was not. The phone rang after. The voice on the other end sounded beaten. 'Well, that didn't go well.' The orders were final.
The Second Department rejects the default characterization of the February 2022 order and replaces its blanket deletion command with a narrower directive. The order is affirmed insofar as appealed from. The custody award is not vacated.