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My ex keeps threatening that he will not return our children to my care.
Q: My children have lived with me for most of the time since their father left us, but as he was on furlough from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I agreed to them spending more time with him, to ring some changes for them because of home schooling. Now he has been made redundant and has suddenly decided he wants to keep them. He keeps threatening that he will not return them to my care. Can he just do this? What can I do to stop it from happening?
A County Council v M & H & T [2021] EWFC 35
A local authority’s application not to assess a grandmother as a carer was granted and the grandmother’s application for a Special Guardianship Order or a Child Arrangements Order was dismissed.
Due to their young age and an unplanned pregnancy discovered late in the day (amongst other matters), H s parents approached the local authority before the birth of H to arrange an adoption. H was placed with foster to adopt parents. On learning of this, the paternal grandmother told the social worker she wished to care for H. The parents objected on grounds which included that the grandmother was a single parent of limited means who had suffered episodes of depression. The wider paternal family did not support the grandmother s application.