This might not be the right place to ask this question but I can't seem to find the answer.
I am a writer who is working on a story about a mother who leaves her children in the care of a nanny and disappears. The nanny wants to take care of the children what are her legal rights and how does she go about doing it without the kids going into foster care?

Legally she has to petition the courts for legal custody due to parental abandenment, but any family can contest it and children service still petition to have the children removed in place in foster care temporarily. It makes for amore interesting story.
Now she could just raise the kids and pretend the parent is still around. You the mother may be a movie star who travels all the time. The school system knows her, the church knows her. That would be a good story too... the deception of it all. Maybe the kid/s don't know either. Good luck