McLean Case

Court is like a play; there is a setting and characters. The leading characters for this day were: Erin McLean, Jason Eric McLean, Judge Bill Swann, Attorney for Erin; Brandy Slaybaugh; for Jason--Steve Sharp; for the children--Lisa White.
Slaybaugh fought to keep Erin off the witness stand. She also fought about the very fact that they were in court at all. She said she had no papers which had been filed, and ask the judge why they were there. The other attorney had to wipe egg off his face and get some copies of a motion made and filed with the court clerk; Slaybaugh had a point. Next, the judge said that the last time his court heard about this case was for the divorce, so he wanted to read the divorce and go from there. So, everyone listened while he read the divorce. (He had a point for doing this which would come out later.)
The entire day was like a big sparing match; especially between Slaybaugh and Swann.
After he read the divorce, he began asking them if they had been going by it, and of course, this is where it turned out that Erin had denied Jason Eric the visits of 189 l/2 days per year.
By her lawyer, Erin told the court she left town to save her children from the media. She said she didn't want her boys to be on 20/20. She said she was a good mother who had been "challenging" the boys while in Texas. (even though it was not clear if they had been in school; probably had not been, but she kept saying they were getting an education).