It IS that simple.
So sad it came to this before they figured that out.
CPS cleared him, according to Solomon and his attorney. It was family court that denied him custody. Those are two different things.
I guarantee that the severe restrictions include highly supervised visitation at a highly secured location. It will be interesting to see if Julia will actually go to such a germ infested place to interact with her daughter.
Her visits will be recorded, either by a person taking notes or via video. I hope it's video. If she says inappropriate things, the visit can be halted. I pray they have someone who is very highly trained for this and knowledgeable about the circumstances.
It would be interesting to see how M reacts to her mother. I get the sense that foster care is much better than life with Julia.
I wonder if this case was bumped from juvenile dependency court jurisdiction and back to family court, whether Solomon could do what Kyron's dad did. Try to prevent visitation unless she undergoes a child custody investigation or deposition. Generally, those are avenues that are possible in family court while in juvenile dependency court, depositions are rare and only with court approval and child custody evals do not occur in the same way that they do in family law cases (at least in California).
Instead, you have social services investigating and giving its report and CASAs (or GALs) giving their reports. But this limits Solomon's ability to argue that until she undergoes a depo or answers questions via other discovery means, or undergoes a private custody evaluation, she should not be granted visitation.
