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Urgent Advice Needed please in relation to a dying mum

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  • jackyann
    jackyann Posts: 3,433 Forumite
    Mother / her representatives need to speak to Social Services urgently.

    These people can be helpful: http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/
  • Gigglepig
    Gigglepig Posts: 1,270 Forumite
    I hope you were able to get some legal advice today OP.
  • Ms_Chocaholic
    Ms_Chocaholic Posts: 12,761 Forumite
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    jackyann wrote: »
    Mother / her representatives need to speak to Social Services urgently.

    These people can be helpful: http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/


    I'm not sure Children's Social Care would do anything given that this is a private law matter and a Court Order has been granted.
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  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    edited 19 January 2015 at 11:00PM
    This is going against the grain of the rest of this thread - OP, I am dreadfully, dreadfully sorry for your friend, life isn't fair at all - but I am more sorry for your friend's little daughter. She is going to lose her mother very soon - and if your friend acts as you are all advising, she could lose her father as well.

    The OP posted that until a few weeks ago, they lived together as a family - and the little girl would have known living together with mummy and daddy. Her father then "cannot cope" with his partner's illness and impeding death and moved out - but he remains the little girl's father. Her mother is going to die very soon - but her father - the other permanent in her little life - will still be alive. Should she really lose her father because he has cheated on her dying mother? What is best in this case? Revenge from the grave? Will that really help this little girl?

    What should matter now is the little girl. Her father will have to live with his behaviour towards his dying partner, but the mother should not have to die with revenge in her heart.
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