He would have said his father deserved to see his granddaughter because he was family.

Now he understood that family did not confer an unlimited right to a child.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

“No,” he said.

“But I’m making the right choice.”

That was enough.

Around the same time, Dana gave us an update on the civil accounting.

A neutral financial professional had been appointed to examine transactions, and several assets would remain under legal scrutiny until questions about administration were resolved.