like the article states, the fact that she left the kids with me when she split, the likelihood that she would gain custody now is next to none. That was the point of my post - that what she's done kind of made it easy for me to have primary custody of the kids.

There is no custody. We have no formal custody document at the moment. And I'm not trying to have custody. Shared is likely what it will be but i want them to primarily be with me physically.