Two children caught in an international tug-of-love have been told they can stay in New Zealand with their father and don’t have to return to their mother in Spain.
The judgment by the Court of Appeal overrules two earlier decisions – in the Family Court and the High Court – that would have required the New Zealand-born children to go back to Europe.
One of the deciding factors in the case was that the children were now “happy and settled” in New Zealand and did not want to go back to live in Spain.
