Anyone work in family law/slicitor that can help me?

[jellyjelly]

Want to take my son away for a few days abroad and need to know what permission i need as my sons name in (on his passport) is his dads name. i was told when we registered his birth that it might be hard for me to take him out without his father.

Any ideas?

i wouldn't have thought thre would be any problem at all. where are you taking him? in europe i can't see it being an issue at all.
i'm no expert though.

[shocked] same thing here. i never changed my name on marriage and the children are my dh name.Never though that if i travelled with then alone would be a problem. What if you carried birth certificate. So many mothers these days retain the maiden name. Phone up the nearest passpoet office. HTH

Has it never been questioned when travelling?

Take his birth cert with you so you can show you are his mother. If you are on good terms with his dad you can ask him to write a general letter saying that have his permission to take him out of the country, but you probably won't need it. Before we had ds had his final adoption hearing we each had a different surname and we were only once asked for proof that we could take ds out of the country (ironically on the one occasion I'd forgotten to take the permission to travel letter that his social worker had written), and we still managed to get on the plane without the proof.

Actually, now that I think about it we all still have different surnames even though he is formally adopted, so I'll have to remember to take the adoption and/or birth cert with us when we travel.

I've heard about problems with sole parents travelling with kids too - the link here : \link{http://www.family-travel.co.uk/practicalities/practicalities2.php3?section=Documents&report=Preparation\Link}says : "in certain countries, for example Mexico, parents travelling alone with a child will be required to show a notary’s letter of permission from the other parent to take the child out of the country of origin, or proof of death if the other parent has die. This is to prevent parents kidnapping children across the border and if travelling without the other parent it might be wise to take something like this wherever you are planning to travelling if you are without the other parent."
Worth checking it out...