KATE Gosselin celebrated her 45th birthday over the weekend, but two of her sextuplets, Hannah and Collin, were missing from the celebration.
Kate, 45, and her ex-husband Jon’s daughter Mady posted a series of TikTok videos from the celebration.
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Mady captioned one video: “When you can’t go to a restaurant for your mom’s birthday you bring the restaurant to her.”
She then showed food and cake with candles on the table, along with her mom and younger sister smiling at the camera.
Mady, 19, and sextuplets Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden, all 15, dance in a second video from the evening.
Missing from the celebration is Hannah and Collin, who Jon has primary custody over.
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Kate has custody of Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden.
Twins Mady and Cara are also in Kate’s care and do not speak with their father.
The Sun exclusively reported from Pennsylvania court papers that a lawyer for the children requested the divided siblings have visitation with each other during a court hearing on May 14, 2019.
Jon, 42, has said the kids have their own lawyer, or a guardian ad litem, who is a representative of the court to make impartial decisions on the children’s behalf when there is a dispute between the mother and father.
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The children’s attorney said during the hearing: “I do want to ask though, Your Honor, if we can still have the four-hour visits every other week or weekly for the children to get together.”
Kate’s attorney interjected that they were “three hour” visits and that the parties “haven’t talked about that at all.”
After discussing the matter off the record, the judge said: “In terms of the visitation, we’ve had some recent contact with the kids, visitation with the kids.
“The Court wants or agrees we’re going to create a third agreement, essentially how we want to handle that going forward.”
The judge then said it is “real important” the parties “find peace somewhere there” and that it should be addressed “soon.”
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Kate’s final Instagram photo of Hannah together with her siblings was in April 2018, around the time Jon won custody of her.
Jon began posting photos of Hannah regularly in May 2018.
Jon revealed in December 2018 that he was awarded temporary sole custody of Collin after he had been living in a program for children with special needs for two years.
He claimed Kate and the children in her care have “no contact” with Collin.
In February, Jon said there is a “tumultuous” relationship between the kids that live with him and those that live with Kate during an interview on First Class Fatherhood.
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He said of the children’s relationship: “Right now, it’s very tumultuous, pretty much, because there’s no contact between Collin and his other siblings. There’s contact between Hannah and the other siblings.
“So, the problem right now is we have parent alienation and we have sibling alienation.”
The Sun also reported that Jon claimed Kate blocked him from Hannah and Collin’s bank accounts from her reality show Kate Plus 8 in court papers filed in October.
Kate responded that Jon did not take the steps needed to establish the transfer of the accounts to him.
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The court ordered the trusts and accounts shall be transferred to him, and that he should arrange for the direct deposits of funds into the accounts.
Kate was ordered to provide any and all documents necessary.
Jon and Kate divorced in 2009 after 10 years of marriage and have been involved in a nasty custody battle over the children since then.
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