Child Custody 10 Law & Order episodes
Custody battles and the children caught in the middle of them.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Extended Family
A 7-year-old’s disappearance turns out to be her mother’s doing, and it leaves Stone with an abuse case built on shaky evidence.
- Season 5 · Episode 2
Coma
A part-time newspaper columnist is shot in the head on Riverside Drive, and the investigation zeroes in on the controlling husband she was planning to divorce.
- Season 6 · Episode 1
Bitter Fruit
A 12-year-old girl is abducted on the way to her piano lesson, and after her accused killer is shot dead at his arraignment, suspicion turns to the shooter: the girl’s own mother.
- Season 8 · Episode 23
Tabloid
A law professor married into a famous family dies running from a gossip columnist into traffic, and when the columnist is later shot, her husband admits the killing and blames the tabloid press.
- Season 9 · Episode 19
Tabula Rasa
A philosophy professor goes under a subway train after recognizing a Cincinnati money manager as the man who disappeared with his two young daughters 15 years earlier.
- Season 12 · Episode 6
Formerly Famous
When a washed-up singer’s much younger wife is shot minutes after they leave his favorite pub, the detectives look at his manager, his grown sons and a custody deal that hid a secret about the couple’s baby.
- Season 14 · Episode 7
Floater
A woman pulled from the Hudson turns out to be a family court clerk, and her husband looks guilty until the prosecutors find a divorce lawyer paying to get his cases before a favored judge.
- Season 14 · Episode 13
Married with Children
A motivational speaker is pushed from a hotel balcony, and suspicion falls on her former partner, who helped raise their daughter but has no legal claim to her under Florida’s ban on adoption by gay people.
- Season 15 · Episode 2
The Dead Wives Club
A passenger who dies when a ferry slams into a Manhattan dock turns out to have been pushed overboard, and suspicion falls on the ex-wife of the firefighter who left her to marry his late best friend’s widow.
- Season 20 · Episode 18
Brazil
The poisoning of a climate-change skeptic leads to his wife’s embittered ex-husband and a custody war over their daughter, one that puts Cutter’s own childhood on the record.