The custody agreement was finalised on a Wednesday in early December.
It took three weeks of negotiation and more documents than Camila had previously understood could exist about a single human arrangement. The language was the language of law — precise, technical, stripped of the human texture underneath it — and reading it required the particular detachment of someone encountering themselves described in a system that was not built for the specificity of their situation.
The core terms were these: joint custody, primary residence with Camila, alternating weekends with Leonardo once Daniel had been formally and age-appropriately introduced to the arrangement. Holidays shared on a schedule they'd worked out with enough flexibility that Dra. Tavares called it unusually collaborative, whi
