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Contrary to popular belief, child support and custody does not have to wait until a divorce is finalized (I know this isn't what you were saying), but it won't happen immediately either. A support order could go thru before anything else due to the needs of the child and the current custodial parent.
That's what I'm expecting. The current situation with the child in a shelter despite a presumably well off father is going to look incredibly bad, especially when he not only has done nothing to fix that situation, but has actually aggressively gone out of his way to keep her in a shelter. It's hard to imagine worse behavior when trying to argue for your fitness as a parent.
Almost all divorces with contested custody have what is called a pendente lite order, or something not in Latin, which is just an order setting the status quo while the litigation continues. That's likely to include an emergency support order. LowT's "emergency" custody motion isn't going to be heard until a couple weeks after that. The court doesn't apparently consider it as much of an "emergency" as Dickard does.