"If only he had been nice to Fluffy": Why the little things count in custody cases
If only he’d been nice to Fluffy. Sometimes in custody trials it’s the little things – literally – that help judges figure out what’s really going on. Because believe it or not, judges realize that how people present themselves in affidavits and on the witness stand, is not necessarily how they behave when no one is looking. Sometimes the little things can speak volumes. So starts Justice Pazaratz in the first lines of his judgment in Chomos v. Hamilton. It was a 6 day custo