Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
My ex-husband is pressuring me to sign papers to allow him to get a passport for our 10 year-old son. I have reason to fear (but no evidence) that he will leave the country with our son and never be seen again. Do I have the right to refuse my son's passport application? Or can I insist that I maintain physical custody of the passport?
2 Answers from Attorneys
You are not required to sign the passport application. If you refuse, the father can then go to court and get a court order. The judge may deny the passport if the father intends to take the child to a "non-Hague" state, that is, a country that does not have a treaty with the U.S. to return children to the U.S. if the children are permanently and improperly kept in that country. These countries generally include Mexico, Japan, many Moslem nations, and some former Soviet nations.
He has to get your consent so if you do not want to gice consent that is fine then he needs to get a court order.
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