Hi could anyone give advice for friend who has not seen GD for 5 weeks. She has brought her up since the day she was born. About 60 per cent of her life has been spent with her if not more. She had her Monday to Friday, paid for her nursery fees, bought her clothes, fed her, took her on holiday. In other words was a surrogate mum. Her son, the dad came to stay with her on his contact days, picking her up from nursery and taking her out etc. The mum has now fallen out with my friend so she has now been refused any contact with her GD, as has the dad. The dad has tried to arrange mediation but the mum won't arrange it. They are both in bits, my friend keeps saying that the GD must think they have abandoned her. The mums house is a tip, think Kim and Aggie and she won't let anyone into it as she knows it is bad. She doesn't know if the child is being cared for properly and the nursery at the moment have taken the mums side so won't discuss anything. They paid the fees for the last year but the mum has told them to stop because her university has said they will pay them. She has fallen out with everyone and has now cut off her only support, the dad and my friend, she had already cut off her own mum. The course she is doing involves leaving the country for a year and they think she is planning on taking her with her and not telling them. The mum has medical problems and has lots of "off days", that was the reason my friend had her so much. Sorry it's a bit of a ramble. So, does the dad have any rights?