Another vector to consider here:
Nick wasn’t charged with child abuse, but Kayla was, and the language involved described “knowingly facilitating” or some thing like that, right?
I wondered at the time whether that meant that zombie mommie let one of the kids get predated on by some kind of swinging buddy. Or, worse, one of the minor children was getting screwed up by all of this youthful exposure to debauchery and took a shot at abusing one of their siblings. And zombie mommy knew but did nothing, while Nick was too self involved to even hear about it in the first place.
The sky’s the limit for horror scenarios here. A house full of lawyers, guns, money, and minors. It’s like a Warren Zevon greatest hits album ffs