CA-2025-001951 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1426

The father’s position in the English proceedings has remained that he will not seek to have physical custody of the children on their arrival in the United States. Shortly after the US order was made, he proposed in the English proceedings that the children should be placed with his mother on arrival, she being willing to come from California to assume that role, and he filed a statement from her. That proposal had not been made to Judge Rashid, whose reference to a ‘grandmom’ was notional. The mother, for her part, has never proposed a third party, despite repeated urging from the courts in both jurisdictions.