A bit like Helen/Lee. SPOILER 20/1/23ish

[Vicky]

A bit like Helen/Lee.

A friend and her ex share their children, 13 and 17 yrs old. The kids
spend half the week with each parent or a week here and one there.
Each parent has a new bf/gf. Father's gf is from Finland, also has 2
kids, similar ages but she and they live separate from ex's husband.
Over Xmas gf not well and had to stay in UK while kids went to visit
grandparents in Finland.

Days after Xmas their mother got very ill, Was taken to hospital and
died. Their father had married again. He has a small baby with his
new wife. After his Finnish ex died the father came to London to look
after his children in his ex's house.

The Finnish grandparents made it to Watford Hospital in time before
life support on their daughter was turned off. They want to takethe
kids back to Finland. The Kids, 13 and 17yrs old, do not want to go.
Father's new wife does not want 2 teenage children moving in with her,
in Peterborough where they live, with her new husband and baby.

The father is currently in his ex's London House looking after the
children. My friend's ex has his own 2 teens to look after and he has
no real entitlement to look after the children, even if he wanted to.
He has not been living with them. I am not sure what they will decide
but for the children it is obviously much worse than a move to the US.
They speak very little Finnish and are in the pre-O Level and A level
years. These entanglements happen nowadays with more divorce etc.