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No, of course not. But given the distance from Sacramento to San Francisco, and the sheer enormity of the event, the mother simply can't be telling the truth when she claims that she didn't know about the lawsuit before the 9th Circuit Court announced their decision. Either she knew where the child was going before she let her leave with her father or she knew about it after the girl returned. After all, what eight year-old would go through a four-hour round-trip car ride and an appearance in a very imposing court of law without gabbing about it at length?

I have a friend whose ex-husband is gay. A couple of years ago when their daughter was eight, she came home all excited. Her father shares custody, so she is with her father a couple of days a week. Anyway, she came home from the weekend all thrilled because she was going to be in a parade, ride in a float, and be able to wave at everyone. She didn't know what kind of parade it was, but she did know when it was. Conveniently, when my friend called her ex to find out the details, he was out of town, and wouldn't be back until the morning of the parade. As it turned out, it was the Gay Pride parade in SLC. The father was technically truthful, his organization had a float in a parade and his daughter could be in the float and wave at the people. He just didn't tell the WHOLE story. And I suspect the same was true with Nednow.

I will grant you, that if I'd had the past history of Nednow filing all those lawsuits in Florida, I would be quite suspicious if he wanted to take my daughter to the Supreme Court in Sacramento. But do we know that is what he told the child's mother???

No maybe it just means that you are wrong and the mother is allowing visitation, and generous visitation at that that they can go on a 4 hour car trip. So much for your theory of totally writing off dad.
As I see it, as a Christian woman, she is probably very forgiving and hoping that somehow this man will change. What you see in that he even has any visitation under the circumstances, is that she is a very generous person who is willing to work with him even though he is clearly a nutjob. If it were me, I'd be half a world away again.