Judgment from the Pretoria High Court.
The parties were in relationship between 2009 and 2020 and have two children. When the relationship ended the children lived with the respondent, their mother, from 2020 to 2021. They went to live with the applicant, their father, in 2022 because the respondent experienced financial difficulties. In December 2023, the respondent arrived at the applicant’s residence with the SAPS and took the children’s belongings and left with the children. The applicant approached the court on an urgent basis for the return of the children to his care. The court ordered that the Family Advocate be urgently appointed to investigate and compile a report within 3 months, pending which the children are to remain in the respondent’s care and the applicant was granted daily telephonic and WhatsApp contact.
C.S.S v O.R (000763-2024) [2024] ZAGPPHC 37 (26 January 2024)