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Custody of the Heart (2000)

Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.

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Top billed cast

Lorraine BraccoClaire Raphael
Martin DonovanDennis Raphael
Dennis BoutsikarisNick Brody
Sheila McCarthyAlice
Nancy PalkRona
Michael CeraJohn 'Johnny' Raphael
Charlotte ArnoldClara Kate 'Kiki' Raphael
David McIlwraithCarter Petrie
Lori HallierPhoebe Harris
John NevilleJudge H. Chadwick

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