The matter of custody, in fact, was settled when Danielle was an infant and cemented in Palm Beach County circuit court in 2004, when she was 18 months old. Designated as “primary residential parent,” her mother would have “sole parental decision-making responsibility” in the girl’s life. Her father would have “open and liberal” visitation rights, says reports.
The court, which noted the toddler had been afforded little if any contact with her father, directed the parents to attend mediation if they could not agree on a visitation schedule. Complicating visitation was the fact that the mother had moved to New York. In court documents, the father alleged she was “elusive” and made visitation impossible.
Four years later, the father petitioned the court to find Bregoli in contempt for not allowing him contact with their daughter. The magistrate declared that theirs was a “textbook case for supervised visitation” and asked the parties to try the “Family Connection” program for two hours every Saturday for six months. Even then, the visitation never happened, according to court documents and the girl’s father.
Barbara Ann didn’t make the case any easier, as years later, she would call up to the job of Ira’s wife for information on the couple’s insurance policy and wrote 4-5 page letters to random judges about Ira; judges who weren’t presiding over her case.
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