From what I've seen Howard hasn't had much experience in child custody issues, etc. It's not like he's been a practicing attorney with many clients.
Virgie Arthur, or anyone in Texas interested in justice for Daniel Smith, should contact Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D, Texas). Reyes got the US law enforcement to handle the case of a Mexican kidnapped by Mexicans in Mexico, the great lady Erika Posselt who then was whisked into the US. I know it is hard to believe but this is true, and there are threads on FR discussing this case. If this was done for a foreigner in a foreign country, why not for an American victim?
Who might have ended up with the ransom money? Not hard to imagine an inside job. So many questions here, so little media coverage of the great lady Erika Posselt who was given this grand treatment. Then there is the unjust treatment given to Virgie Arthur.