Thanks for the reply ! I’ve figured out a work around! I instead placed the blueprints inside LeapRiggedEchoHands, the child actor for LeapHands iirc (I’ll check this tommorow to confirm but I thought I’d writed quickly for now). Once I did that I got it working. So for anyone who has the same problem, place it in the child actor and cast your grab variable from the your character to that bp to check if grabbing. I’ll post a screenshot of my bp later. Apologies if I explained incorrectly here. 
EDIT: So just to clarify, instead of placing your bp functions and nodes such as pickupIfEmpty inside the BP_FloatingHands you move it to LeapRiggedEchoHands actor bp. I know there are better ways to do these things but I didn’t have a lot of time 
