On the Friday of the first week, my attorney — Arcelia Fuentes, in Houston, which was deliberate — filed for a temporary restraining order and emergency temporary orders in the county of my daughter’s residence.

An ex parte TRO in Texas lasts fourteen days.

It is granted on an affidavit, without the other side present, and it is temporary in the most literal sense.

Mine restrained removal from the county, restrained contact by Cade, Tripp and Arliss Gaddis, and gave me possession pending a hearing.

Fourteen days later there was a temporary orders hearing, contested, in front of an associate judge, and it lasted a day and a half.

I got temporary primary possession.