On page nineteen, tucked near the bottom of a dense section about school district enrollment, I found clause forty-two.

It was set in smaller type than the paragraphs before it and filed under a routine heading about transportation for extracurricular activities.

Clause forty-two said primary physical custody depended strictly on the residential parent keeping a continuous primary residence inside the West Hartford school district.

It went on to say that if the residential parent moved outside the district for any reason, primary physical custody would immediately go back entirely to the parent who hadn’t moved.

I pulled my yellow audit ledger closer and looked up median rents in West Hartford.