STBEX has stolen my passport

[mollythemaid]

I've just found all our passports and birth certificates (including mine and my adult dd) plus marriage certificate and all other important documents have gone missing, along with all the dcs. I'm certain the stbex has taken them. Obviously the children's passports, well they belong to the dc so I can't stop him having those, but can I report mine and dd's as stolen to the police?
I don't think he'd take the dc out of the country, I think he's just taken them as a spiteful/control thing. He's an alcoholic and a gaslighting compulsive liar.
What do I do? Help!

And after 29 yrs you seem to think that it is a "law" and not a ruling.

No.
I said "the law" if you check my previous post.
The law, as in the court of law, that will almost always rule that the resident parent has the child's passport.

HTH.

As you are redefining what you mean. of course it helps.

But just FYI you have now moved from "The law says the resident parent should have the passports of any minors" and "I've never known" to "almost always".

There is a hole is your posting.

@FrippEnos you are going down a really tangential side line. The post if you care to refer back is that her STBEX has stolen HER passport.

You don't know he has taken them so you can assume that anyone could have stolen them. So just report them as stolen and apply for new ones. Don't even ask him or mention it at all.
Marriage and birth certificates the same. You can apply for new copies.

You report them as stolen to the passport office and apply for replacements. It is a fairly easy process. My son had to replace his recently as his disappeared out of his bag at an airport. It happens a lot apparently.

Report them as stolen asap. You can then apply for new ones

And he has given hers and her DD's passport back.
Threads evolve, even if its in a way that you don't like. and putting in misinformation such as been done here helps nobody.

He's had enough time to photocopy them and take the numbers down

He can still create a lot of chaos from taking out loans to declaring them stolen himself and having replacements sent to him at any new address

This could turn into a very ugly custody war, with him claiming custody and benefits as the resident parent.

I suggest everyone ignores the poor hard done to menz and concentrates on the OP's situation.

As she has said, her husband has returned her ppt and her adult child's but seems to have kept the younger children's who obviously don't have the same agency as the adult child's and the OP's.

This is what rings the alarm bells.

Again, if he won't return them, then have them blocked @mollythemaid

Good luck

If he uses them to create chaos or more specifically uses them to take out loans that would be fraud, which the OP could have him arrested for.

As for replacements etc. if he (like as been suggested to the OP) reports them as stolen and has replacements delivered to his address, he is allowed to do this (as is the OP) if he has PR.

HicIocusEst
This is not about the "menz" (honestly you are doing yourself no favours by being puerile) its about making sure posters have the correct information.

If the OP wants this to stop happening or prevent it from happening again she needs to go to court to get an order to say that the passports reside with her.
And much as it may annoy posters she will more than likely have to go through an attempt at mediation first.

@FrippEnos misinformation? You mean like..... 'So we are going to pretend that the usual response to a woman leaving her husband isn't to take all of the important documents including passports, bank statements etc?'
This is not a fact. It's your perception. You have so much anger towards women that you are failing to keep this discussion to this woman and this man. You are continuing to speak from a place of anger towards all women.

@pantypant

And yet you are still pushing your perception on me.
It is a shame that you can't make your point any other way.

What perception is that Petal?

Never mind "Petal", its clearly beyond you.