The Relief Act applies to a civil action, such as the incident you mentioned. Custody actions involve the welfare of the child, delaying a hearing in a circumstance where the child is at risk could be inimical to the child’s welfare.
Is the child home alone? I doubt it. Likely other members of his family have the child so no it would not be an emergency nor an endangerment by the father. Did someone get wind of his deployment perhaps and decide to make a legal move? Some of the nastiest dirty tricks and corruption you will ever see is in the agencies and courts that decide these cases.
Signed,
A man who was found in contempt of court for trying to tell the WHOLE truth and protect kids no one in the system gave a rats ass about.