My sister and my 14 year old nephew have not been getting on for 8 months now as he wants to live with his dad and rather than let him she has been fighting it to the point that he is to go in front of a childrens pannel soon. She would not let him have contact with anyone in our family or his dad so he ran away and had police out searching for him whilst she updated people on facebook. He was found 12 hours after he dissapeared and the next day he phones my dad and asks if he could stay with them, an obvious yes as they would do anything for any of their grandchildren. His stepdad made the decision that he needed to be out of their house as the friction between mother and son was causing far too many arguments. Now we are in Scotland and they are in Wales so its not as if it was a small move.
Sister has not handed over any form of money to my parents but she will be receiving child benifit for him along with tax credits of some form. She does not want my parents to go along the route of contacting inland revenue which is crap as far as I am concerned, she wants the money but not her son. So my question is where do they stand and what would they be entitled to? They do have a solicitors letter handing over gaurdianship so they can get him into school and get medical help if needed.