It’s a happy day for Kelly Rutherford, who has won a long battle for her two children to return to the United States. Rutherford’s son Hermes, 8, and daughter Helena, 6, had been living with their father, Daniel Giersch, in Monaco since 2012. On Friday, a California judge granted the Gossip Girl actress temporary sole custody, ordering the children to be returned to L.A. with Rutherford having possession of their passports.
Rutherford still has to wait and see if Monaco will agree with the California court’s ruling. “It has long been our position that Monaco has no jurisdiction because Hermes and Helena, as American citizens, have an absolute right to live in their own country,” Wendy Murphy, Rutherford’s lawyer said in a statement to People. A hearing at the L.A. Superior Court is also scheduled for June 15.
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