Her report ran to thirty-eight pages and recommended primary conservatorship to the father.

Its central finding, and I can quote it, is: Colonel Serrano presents as capable and highly organized.

Her availability, however, is structurally constrained by the requirements of her commission, and the evaluator notes that this constraint is not within her control and is therefore unlikely to be remediable.

Not within her control and therefore unlikely to be remediable.

Nineteen years of service entered into a family court record as a permanent and unfixable defect in a mother.

Two: the character witnesses.