Chapter 18:
Solomon came back down the stairs with a fresh cup of coffee and a look on his face like he'd already decided I was going to waste his time.
"Talk," he said.
I stood up.
"The hearing is tomorrow at nine. He's gonna walk in with a lawyer and a file and a welfare complaint and he's gonna say I'm unfit and my daughter's at risk and the county needs to intervene. Right?"
"Right."
"So we don't fight it."
Solomon stopped with the cup halfway to his mouth.
"Say that again."
"We don't fight the welfare complaint. We let him file it. We let him have his hearing. And then we turn around and file our own motion in the same courtroom on the same morning."
Solomon set the cup down.
"You want to counter-file at an emergency hearing."
"I want to counter-file at an emergency hearin
