<p>I repeat what I said upthread: the judge is in North Carolina. She has been a family law practitioner for seventeen years, and a judge for five years. I suspect that she has seen it all. The idea that this decision is based on corruption is probably nonsense. Judges don’t typically take custody away from a mother and give it to an out-of-state father without some pretty strong reasons to do so.</p>
<p>The news articles don’t tell us about the finances, or about what the father is willing to do.</p>