Hi all,
I am wanting to take my daughter to Bali for a holiday at Christmas 2017. She will be 13. She has been twice before, once with both of us and once alone with me whilst her father and I were still married. Her passport expired last year. I have asked him to sign a passport application and he just ignored me. I am planning on sending him the application and again asking but I expect he will just throw it out.
This will purely be out of spite. He moved to the country nearly a year ago and hasn't seen his daughter since - made two attempts to - the first time he texted her half an hour before he was to pick her up saying he wasn't coming - the second time was New Years Day - sent a text at 8 am asking to see her that day even though he knew we were away from town on a family holiday. He rarely pays child support. His refusal to sign a passport is based on spite - hatred of me - for no other reason.
I have read the special circumstances of the Passport Office - I don't think the situation applies at all - they don't seem to have a circumstances for the father just clearly being difficult.
The cost of a Court Application and the stress of it all is somewhat offputting. What do you think my chances are anyway? It's a 7-day holiday.
I am wanting to take my daughter to Bali for a holiday at Christmas 2017. She will be 13. She has been twice before, once with both of us and once alone with me whilst her father and I were still married. Her passport expired last year. I have asked him to sign a passport application and he just ignored me. I am planning on sending him the application and again asking but I expect he will just throw it out.
This will purely be out of spite. He moved to the country nearly a year ago and hasn't seen his daughter since - made two attempts to - the first time he texted her half an hour before he was to pick her up saying he wasn't coming - the second time was New Years Day - sent a text at 8 am asking to see her that day even though he knew we were away from town on a family holiday. He rarely pays child support. His refusal to sign a passport is based on spite - hatred of me - for no other reason.
I have read the special circumstances of the Passport Office - I don't think the situation applies at all - they don't seem to have a circumstances for the father just clearly being difficult.
The cost of a Court Application and the stress of it all is somewhat offputting. What do you think my chances are anyway? It's a 7-day holiday.
