[2025] EWHC 2961 (Fam)

As indicated earlier, the mother lived with the maternal grandmother during the time she was in Japan with the child until April 2025. I digress to observe, further to father’s case, that this apartment, if correct, does not appear to have been ideal in terms of space [149/510]. Nor was the property, in one sense, the child’s settled and lasting home. On the other hand it is continuity of carer/s that matters in the early years of a child’s life, rather than the physical home environment. I pause to reflect that the child must have spent a very considerable part of her life with the maternal grandmother, with every indication from the evidence including photographs, of an important attachment by the child to her.