" That was not a good ruling."
Judge A.R. Van Owen sighed as she looked up from the thick hardbound law journal she had been examining carefully while eating an artichoke and spinach salad at her desk. She looked into the sternly disapproving elderly face of her once upon a time mentor Chief Judge Bernard Arnett who stood before her like an imposing monument in his own black robe.
" It was, actually. In fact, your honor, Judge Arnett , it was a ruling you would have made yourself. Once. I think you may have become a little biased in your new happy domestic life. Or , is old age finally settling in? "
Bernard scowled at his new stepdaughter. He knew that Alice Rose adored this woman and he loved Alice Rose so he was trying his best not to tear her a new one even as he stood. It was difficult. He never dreamed that love could be quite so tiresome and trying at times. Like how his new wife kept humming at night while she knitted and he attempted to read in his armchair. " I never would have made such a ruling, young lady. The actions taken by my grandson's husband are deplorable, yes, but they were apparently past actions. Nigel has changed his ways. He is a responsible hardworking member of our proper society now. It is not appropriate or just to use his past against him. Why did you do it? "
A.R. was tired of discussing this one ridiculous case with so many people. They acted like she had placed the boy in foster care instead of with his grandfather. Although she planned to have Andrew carefully watched as far as his drinking. If he fell from grace in that regard she just might remove Lewis Norland completely and made an official ward of the court. " I did it because I am a judge and it was my case. I reviewed the evidence and made what I believe was the right and proper course of action. If you disagree with that , your honor, feel free to make a complaint on me to the judicial board. Of course, my mother may have issues with that. Now please leave me be to finish my lunch. Thank you. "
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ODDS OF LOVE - SEASON 14
General FictionThe ongoing original soap opera about disabled math genius and professor Dr. Spencer Norland - Lane , his doctor husband DuBuis Lane , and their family, friends and enemies in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Diverse. Multicultural.
