Can a mother lose custody for dating a felon

And she’d stayed home to raise them, for long stretches on her own, through a tumultuous 15-year-marriage that broke down when she discovered her husband had bought a second house across town where he was having an affair with another woman. She married Ed Cunningham, a former football star turned lawyer and businessman, and had three boys and a girl. A slender Mexican-American woman with long dark hair and a whip-quick mind, she’d scraped her way up from a New Mexico trailer park to serve in the Peace Corps and graduate from the University of Texas Law School. This article was published in partnership with Longreads.Ĭoronado was angry.