Fuck me. Will someone please put together the stats of how many times Alice has 'shut down' SM, re-appeared, changed to private, then changed to public and repeated? Just clear evidence of her pattern of inability to control self-damaging patterns of behaviour. I am sure Anne Kiley has all the receipts as Alice has basically providing her with all the material she needs to support the 50/50 custody case. But having said that, the sad thing is it's unlikely to work in Ioan's favour if the girls refuse to go to him. It is just bloody awful and unlikely to end well for Ioan given the solid 2 years of alienation suffered by the girls. I know all us Tattlers want justice, but think we need to steel ourselves for the reality of the situation. The judge is unlikely to strip child support in the rebuttal presumption as there are many factors he/she needs to take into account, primary being the best for the girls - to take the girls away from a mother who has had majority custody for most of their lives is unlikely as is allowing the girls to live in poverty because Alice cannot/will not get a job to provide the same standard of living as Ioan is incredibly slim, even with a DVRO. Neither is it likely the Judge will force Ella to go to Ioan given her constant 'run-aways'. To the Judge this will be a deeply nuanced case and the bottom line judgement is likely to be neither fair nor just as far as we or Ioan is concerned.