Passports!?

[daisydo123]

Name change for this one but does anyone have any advice on children's passports?

OH's Ex is being awkward with our holiday this year and is refusing to give over DSS passport, does OH have the right to order a copy for ourselves or can they only have 1?

So confusing even after reading through countless GOV info pages

He is on birth certificate and has regular contact every single week and pays maintenance every month without fail

He needs to apply to Court for a Specific Issue Order for Consent to take the children on holiday, with an order for mum to hand over the passports. He may need to agree to a clause that he returns them straight after the holiday.

You can only ever have one passport, like the above poster stated you will need to apply for a court order

Thank you for the advice Moose will get onto the relevant websites to get this sorted in the morning hopefully x

Good luck!

As other posters said - get a specific issues issues order. It’s £215. Let her explain to the judge why she’s being awkward.

Doesn't she want him to go on holidays with you?

Apparently 'doesn't trust dad as far as she can throw him' and 'why would she wants people knowing we were the first to take him abroad' and 'she has to be the first to do it' so I don't know really

Explain that you will take her to court and she will be charged half the cost - might be enough to make her see sense. If you do have to go to court it's worth getting an ongoing mandate so this isn't repeated

She gets benefits so would get legal aid anyway, looks like court is the only option x

No legal aid unless there has been DV. Am presuming she wouldn’t get it.

Sounds like mum is preventing a holiday for her own selfish reasons - she wants to be the first to take them abroad. Tough, she can’t afford to.

And as for ‘she doesn’t trust the dad as far as she can throw him’. She obviously trisedc him when she decided to have a child with him.

Stop her silliness with a court order.

Explain that you will take her to court and she will be charged half the cost

Very, very unlikely. Family court doesn’t work that way. And agree with another poster, there is no longer legal aid for family matters - hasn’t been for many years now.

Exactly Trusts him enough for us to have him 2/3 days a week and when she goes away with her partner etc

All inclusive all been paid for by OH's lovely father and she knows that but is still refusing

She was trying to provoke OH into an argument the other day and he just wasn't replying to texts she then proceeded to say 'oh and your not taking ........ on holiday abroad with you incase I haven't already said 🙃'

Just feel sorry for little one missing out on a holiday with his father and grandparents

So when is the holiday? You need to get the application in ASAP

Oh gosh we had the 'I have to be the first person to take her abroad' thing. So DH waited for that to happen.

After that it was 'I have to be the first person to take her outside Europe'. DSD missed a few holidays with us until DH got a court order for that one (he actually got an SRO at the same time with a fairly detailed contact order stating half of all holidays to be spent with him, passport to be made available to whichever parent had DSD).

Are you sure she has a passport if she hasn't been away before? If she doesn't have one, there's nothing to stop your OH applying for one. The passport doesn't belong to either parent by the way, or even the child. It technically belongs to 'HM's Government'. My DSD's Mum got reminded of that in court.

Good luck.

She states she has a passport but it's never been mentioned before and we have never seen it apparently 'she got one for him just incase'

Going to ring today and see if one has actually been issued if not will apply

Also going to get the c100 sorted