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I can tell you that Florida courts call it in the best interest of the child and favor the one being more reasonable. There isn't the tendency to favor the mother just for being the mother.

I say this from experience of 2 separate male friends getting divorced, the mother thinking that everything should go in their favor and then the mother getting rinsed and chewed out by the court because the father was the reasonable one and doing everything correctly.

Running and hiding for 6 months will definitely count heavily against her. However if she can provide proof of the abuse to the court then I'm sure they would side with her. Probably wants to look into her options of restricting his access immediately due to the abuse rather than just running. Obviously if that can't be safely accomplished then they are going to need to get the police involved