tbh I actually think Alice goes ahead with those hearings. It's where she can weaponise her kids the most and thus hurt him, the eldest seems also very happy to support this judging by what we are seeing, and even if she loses custody or something at least for Ella (probably both, due pressure) it would be only on paper. With bifurcation being done by then (and who knows what Ioan and Bianca plan for their future) I expect also further escalation from both mother and daughter, with the later being the executing power due to Ioan still trying to facilate contact with her.I think Alice is not even going to bother to get a lawyer. She will 'settle' the day before for 50/50 custody and will then plan to never hand the children over during their father's custody time, and she would plan to continue doing this until the girls are 18. I am sure Ioan now realises that a settlement is not worth the paper it is written on with Alice and that he needs to go balls to the wall on this one.
she is a protected person, they usually are allowed to testify too.I think you are on to something here as the filling states that Gloria, Dennis and Alice are willing to testify but I don’t think it mentions Elsie doing so?
though the courts tend to be unimpressed to have minors testify, but if you lack witnesses for a DV case....
well,without lawyer this whole stuff will be rather impractical anyway lmao