My husband filed emergency custody of our six-year-old, telling the court I was too unstable to parent. Four days earlier, he'd already tried to access our daughter's $18M child protection trust. The custody filing and the frozen tuition landed on my counter the same morning. My lawyer asked one question about the trust. That question changed everything.

If a father uses his child's custody filing to reach her trust — is he fighting for her, or fighting to become the parent who can sign the money?

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