Hi HaWho - I'm sure it's not your reality but you sound like a woman who is in charge of the bus she's riding on. It must be nice to have some control of things after so long of tipping around on egg-shells.
From the outside your STBX is just going through a litany of "me me me me look at what a great dad me is me me me". Sadly this probably has nothing to do with being a father but is more about spinning the image and situation to his own advantage.
Having been on the side with a moderately useless lawyer against a competent but fortunately unmotivated one it's great to hear how a Good lawyer handles things in the face of adversity.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells