Missing Cat, Dad and little Daughter

[MarkMT 68]

I can't think of a better education for youngsters than seeing the world by sailboat.

https://vimeo.com/139102400\

 

Great video!

[erice 732]

not to lucky it seems

 

"A 49-year-old man is due in Te Awamutu District Court on 25 January 2017, charged with taking a child from New Zealand."

 

Langdon denied he sailed from New Zealand to Australia to avoid an ongoing custody dispute between himself and Que's mother stating he has been Que's primary carer since birth.

 

"It's not a custody battle, it's an access thing," he said. "I've always been looking after [Que]."

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11782710

 

so someone needs to look after the cat

 

while he flies back to answer to the man

[GregW 28]

Assuming he comes back to appear. IMO he would be crazy to. I would have thought that as they were both reportedly Aussie citizens and are now in Australia,the matter, whatever that may be, could be left for their Family Court to sort out. 

[erice 732]

possibly the nz charge is the stick the ozzie police can wave at him to allow the mother uncontested access?

 

plus the nz family court won't want to be seen to be doing nothing about a possible abduction when the girl's passport had already been held to prevent this happening

 

he's on record as saying he has no plans to return to nz

[Zozza 293]

"Charged with taking a child from New Zealand". Wtf?  Sounds like a made up charge to me. It is his child after all. They are both Aussie citizens.  What jurisdiction can a NZ court have in a custody battle when it is non New Zealand citizens involved anyway?! And, notice how the charge mentions nothing about "custody", it's "charged with taking a child from NZ"..again, WTF?!

[erice 732]

1 - they lose their off-the-grid liveaboard in cyclone, relationship breaks up

 

2 - father disappears with daughter, mother knows not where, to another off-the-grid place

 

3 - mother pays child abduction specialist to find them, tracked down to queensland 

 

4 - mother wants regular access

 

5 - father moves again to kawhia nz with daughter, where he apparently grew up before moving to oz, appears to deny or complicate mother's access 

 

6 - mother starts action in nz family court, child's passport is held as father could gap it again with daughter

 

7 - father does gap it again

 

8 - mother rehires abduction expert at great expense to find daughter again

 

9 - father + daughter relocated, mother reunited with happy daughter, father upset

 

10. - nz family court calls him in for a "sort this out" talk as you can't just hope around between like-minded countries picking and choosing your justice once proceedings have been started through your obstinacy 

 

i have no fish in this fight + it seems people are bending over backwards to help him

 

but this "it's my child and i'll do what i like with it" attitude

 

isn't helping him

 

or the increasing numbers of parents trying to pull it off

[wheels 543]

I am really worried now. I have to take my Boat back around to the other Sound this weekend. This fellow had two rudders and with one breaking, he was forced to sail all the way to Oz. I have only one rudder. If it breaks, where on earth will I end up

[Fish 0]

I am really worried now. I have to take my Boat back around to the other Sound this weekend. This fellow had two rudders and with one breaking, he was forced to sail all the way to Oz. I have only one rudder. If it breaks, where on earth will I end up

Maybe you should take a means of communication. Maybe a phone or something. If you wanted to get really posh, you could take one of those new fangled VHF thingees. And perhaps if you are of nervous disposition, you could take an EPIRB to summons help, but only if you really really don't want to cross a piece of water with a frightful reputation, and end up in the West Island, where I hear there are lots and lots of.... .... Australians.

 

Of course, if you actually wanted to go to Australia, I wouldn't take any of that stuff, and just before you land I'd rip the one rudder off and say the perfectly good one thats still in the water was no good at steering the boat...(its the wrong type of rudder for steering the boat)

[Black Panther 1,581]

I think you will need an awful lot of ice cream.

[erice 732]

"She's hoping for 50-50 equal shared care. It's what she's wanted all along.

 

"That little girl needs both parents, whether they like each other or not.

 

"She's going to need them both and they're going to regret all the bullsh*t that they've been through ...''

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11783227

 

edit

 

he wants to fight it in melb.

[SloopJohnB 323]

I have only one rudder. If it breaks, where on earth will I end up

Bit like a Irish joke.

 

There was a Irishman on a 747 flight crossing the Atlantic when the pilot announced that the arrival time was delayed by 1 hour as one of the engines had stopped.Couple of hours later the pilot announced  there would be another delay as another engine faulted.

 

The Irishman turned the passenger next to him and said luck there'e 4 engines otherwise we will be up here for ever.

[erice 732]

mother + daughter back in nz

[erice 732]

Poor guy, now he's a "news story" his every move will be reported.....at least while he appears to be thumbing his nose at the authorities

[erice 732]

looks like things have settled

 

ttps://www.stuff.co.nz/national/94185269/back-to-school-and-back-on-land-for-que-langdon