Chapter 23 - The Order
The court kept Noah’s primary school residence with me in Colorado.
Grant’s relocation request with Noah was denied.
Reasons:
Continuity.
School.
Community.
Existing therapeutic care.
My parenting stability.
Grant’s judgment.
The staged confrontation.
Use of Noah as a trigger for litigation.
Then parenting time.
Grant did not lose his son.
Initially:
Therapeutic contact.
Supervised Colorado visits.
After six months compliance:
Unsupervised day visits.
Then overnights.
Texas travel only after Noah demonstrated comfort and professionals supported.
Joint legal decision-making remained limited initially.
I held temporary tie-breaking authority for therapy and school for eighteen months.
After that:
Review.
No Logan contact without Noah’s therapist and parental/court approval.
Neither parent could discuss litigation with Noah.
Neither could use other adults to test, provoke, or document the child’s reactions.
That sentence existed because apparently someone had to write it.
Attorney fees:
Grant ordered to pay the portion of my fees directly caused by the staged-evidence litigation and emergency discovery.
Not everything.
No financial annihilation.
Then divorce.
Separate.
I filed.
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Grant did not fight the marriage itself.
He knew.
