Unless you are familiar with the case and you are a member of the Indiana Bar, you cannot know all the circumstances of the case.  I love watching CourtTV and listening to their attorney commentators who may have a license to practice in one state but have little to no working knowledge of another state's laws.  Besides, this is Civil not Criminal.  Unless a jury is involved, civil court decisions are decided by the judge.  I don't know what kind of lattitude Indiana Family law gives the judge on motions such as he made.  In the end, he cover his butt by couching it in the terms that everything he has done is in the best interest of the children.