She filed a petition for custody of her grandson on the nineteenth of June, 2017.

Mark contested it.

He was the paternal uncle with existing temporary guardianship and an address and a marriage certificate to a woman with a stable job, and Alma Salas was a sixty-nine-year-old widow on a fixed income who had buried her daughter fourteen months earlier.

The docket runs eleven entries.

Three continuances, two of which Mark’s attorney requested.

A referral to a court evaluator that took four months.