Legal Question in Family Law in California

We are U.S. citizens and currently (temporarily) living in Armenia.

In a few weeks my husband and our daughter (15 years old) coming to USA (California) in order what she continue her education in the high school. My husband will come back to Armenia, after one month and our daughter will stay with her grandparents approximately a year, until we all will move bake to USA.

Our questions are:

1) What type of legal document (power of attorney, custody of the grandparents, guardianship of a child) we, as parents, should give to the grandparents, so they can use it for our daughter�s school, medical purposes, for government ageneses and for other similar purposes.

2) Since, only my husband going to USA, can he sign that legal document by himself in the USA or we both (both parents) need to sign that document here in Armenia?

3) In that same legal document can we include other person�s (her uncle) name also, or we have to fell two separate forms?

Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.

Garo & Ina (Yerevan, Armenia)


Asked on 8/19/10, 1:30 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

It would probably be best to establish a temporary guardianship. You will need to sign documents as well as your husband. You won't have to sign them together, and usually you can even sign different signature pages of the same document and together they will be considered one document. You will probably have to go to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate to sign. You can provide for an alternate guardian in the event the primary guardian is unable to serve.

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Answered on 8/24/10, 2:30 pm


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