FD25P00127/ZC25C50084 - [2025] EWHC 2040 (Fam)

At the hearing, the parties’ positions were as follows. The applicant submitted I should make findings of fact based upon the document that began as the interim threshold but had been amended and renamed Schedule of Findings. The applicant submitted that it was in ZE’s best interests to remain in his father’s care and to live with him until eighteen. They submitted there should be only supervised contact between ZE and Mrs Z. I was invited to maintain wardship. The respondent father, supported this position. Mrs Z sought the return of ZE to her care and the conclusion of the proceedings. In the alternative she sought unsupervised contact. She invited me to make findings to correct the false position put forward by the applicant. Counsel for ZE submitted he wanted to go home to his mother. The Guardian’s final analysis supported ZE remaining living with his father. After having heard the evidence, the Guardian supported unsupervised contact between ZE and Mrs Z to avoid ZE “falling off a cliff” when he turns eighteen.