41.   The case is unusual because courts typically award custody to someone other than the biological parent only when a parent is proven unfit or abandons a child.

42.   The laws were enacted to take some of the acrimony out of divorce, although judges in many states still consider fault in dividing property and awarding child custody.

43.   The three had holed up at the Italian Embassy in Kuwait in defiance of a court order there awarding custody to the father.

44.   When she disappeared, Tori had been living with Bryan Wollangur, who was awarded custody after divorcing his wife, Elizabeth Dora Wetzel.