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*** Hell, where's the custody? Unless Joyce specifically wrote in her will 'And Hank gets Dawn back not ''even'' over my dead body', custody would revert first to the surviving parent before appointing her older sister as legal guardian. Season 6 has several unanswered questions that are really explainable only by Hank Summers having either pre-deceased Joyce or ended up in jail or a fugitive expat in Brazil, but something like that should have been mentioned. |
*** Hell, where's the custody? Unless Joyce specifically wrote in her will 'And Hank gets Dawn back not ''even'' over my dead body', custody would revert first to the surviving parent before appointing her older sister as legal guardian. Season 6 has several unanswered questions that are really explainable only by Hank Summers having either pre-deceased Joyce or ended up in jail or a fugitive expat in Brazil, but something like that should have been mentioned. |
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** Unanswered question #2: Hank Summers not showing up at his ex-wife's funeral. Again, unless he's dead, fled, in jail, or ''totally'' alienated from his family, that just doesn't fly... but any of those possibilities should logically already have been mentioned up on the show, as they are hardly insignificant events beneath the notice of the Summers family. |
** Unanswered question #2: Hank Summers not showing up at his ex-wife's funeral. Again, unless he's dead, fled, in jail, or ''totally'' alienated from his family, that just doesn't fly... but any of those possibilities should logically already have been mentioned up on the show, as they are hardly insignificant events beneath the notice of the Summers family. |
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*** Data point: while Buffy does go to visit her father out-of-town at least once, he ''never'' shows up in Sunnydale outside of a dream sequence -- and even in the dream Buffy is visibly shocked at the idea of his showing up. Apparently, the divorce settlement left Hank with zero guaranteed visitation rights and Joyce with sole custody of the children, even after Joyce moved out of town (making the children suffer through a move is a possible weighting factor in deciding custody). Under California state law this means one of two things is overwhelmingly likely to be true. One, that the divorce was uncontested, and Hank Summers had virtually zero interest in maintaining ties to his children. Two, that the divorce was contested... and granted under such circumstances that Hank had done goofed to the point where the divorce court agreed that Joyce should be given the most one-sided settlement possible, which would imply 'open and notorious adultery' ''at the very least'' if not outright criminal behavior of some kind. Either possibility leads to the same conclusion; the divorce was far more acrimonious than Buffy (or Dawn) believed, and Hank and Joyce were simply keeping a polite face on it in front of the children. |
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