Child's savings post divorce

[wirral]

My ex and I had a building society savings account for our daughter. We were joint trustees. We are now divorced. He has washed her pass book for the account and apparently needs her birth certificate to get a new pass book. I told him ' no problem, I'll take her birth certificate to building society and get new pass book'. He now tells me that I can't as he's taken my name off the account so I am no longer a Trustee.

Can he do this?
Can he have control of her account if he doesn't have access to any of her identificatin etc?

Do I have any recourse?

Wouldn't have though he could do this. Think you would both need to sign to say you are no longer a trustee.

Do you think so? I am torn between what to do. A bit of me thinks, just forget it and start own savings etc. To be honest he's buggered anyway as he can't get pass book without my cooperation

Something fishy is going on here, last year when I took my name of a joint account, I needed two forms of Id and had to sign a form.

When i put dd1 passbook in that safe placeand had to get a new one i had to take her birth certificate and 2 forms of identification.

Sounds like he's trying to get you taken off now, by getting the ID he needs. Is there a lot of cash in the account? I'd stand your ground and wait to see what he says.

If he hasn't already taken your name off, he may well be able to with the pass book. If you are concerned about keeping your name on the account, I would speak to him before sending anything to him. Suppose it depends whether you think he's likely to run off with the millions of pounds in the savings account?

Incidentally, phoning the building society to find out may not be enough - call centre people often don't understand what you are trying to explain in situations like this - go into a branch and have them call up the account to see if you are a trustee. I would expect to be able to do this in the account holding branch even without a passbook.

Thanks all for the words of wisdom. I went into building society and found that he withdrew all the savings bar £1 last September!

Am taking deep breaths and getting on with life!

if you haven't yet sorted out ancillary relief you could get the money back from him for DD that way. what a tosser he sounds.