Documentation for Kids? / Single Parent

[MamaKate]

I'm a single parent of 2 and we will be going on a our first Disney Cruise next year.

I was wondering, do you need some sort of documentation to bring the kids on the cruise?? I know when you travel with them out of the country you need to bring a notorized letter from the other parent or court papers showing you have sole-legal custody.

Does Disney Cruise require this for me to bring my kids on the cruise??? I would like to know before I get there, and they don't let me on the ship with my kids

Thanks for the help!
,
Katherine

 

[jkovick]

I was wondering about child documentation as well. ( We may take a neice and nephew on a cruise and were wondering what papers we might need. ) Hopefully someone out there can fill us in.

 

[floridaminnie]

jkovick, in the cruise docs there will be a form that will need to be notrized from the children's parents giving you permission.

MammaKate, it all depends on what your custody papers say. There are threads that have talked about it in the past. I have costy of my DD and my name is the only one on the birth certf. and I've never had a problem.

 

[jennyl772003]

This IS considered going out of the country, so you do need a notarized letter. Even if they never ask for it, it is better to have it then for them to ask for it and not! I had to track down 2 years missing dead beat to get one, but NOTHING is going to stop this vacation!

 

[MamaKate]

Well, I have a year to track him down and get a letter notarized. I've been meaning to go to court & get Sole-Legal custody, but I've been putting it off, so maybe this will be my incentive to take him to court.

I just hate the fact that he has control over my vacation. He doesn't help out with the children in anyway (financially or physically) and he still has rights??

Well, at least I can go to Disney World without his permission !

Thanks for the info!!
,
Katherine

 

[Gina]

All I did, at DCL's suggestion, was go to the courthouse and get certified copies of the pertinent pages of my divorce decree -- the first page with the names of the parties and the case number and all that, the page stating that I have sole physical custody, and the last page with the signatures. I have never been asked for any of it, but I always take it. I'd rather chew off my own arm than grovel to him to get him to sign something like that. No thanks.

-gina-

 

[Buckaroo's Dad]

Hi jennyl772003.

I had to track down 2 years missing dead beat to get one,

I cannot comprehend any non-custodial parent's rationale for abandoning their child(ren) in the wake of divorce whether it be in the spiritual, financial OR physical sense. No, I'm not looking through the proverbial "rose-colored glasses." Just humanity on a personal level...

There reaches a point, Jennyl772003, where I would hope you don't have to "search" in order to "safely" take your child on vacation. You might have been better served seeking assistance from a local politician.


Hi Gina.

All I did, at DCL's suggestion, was go to the courthouse and get certified copies of the pertinent pages of my divorce decree -- the first page with the names of the parties and the case number and all that, the page stating that I have sole physical custody, and the last page with the signatures. I have never been asked for any of it, but I always take it. I'd rather chew off my own arm than grovel to him to get him to sign something like that.

I did the same thing based upon DCL's suggestion. Fortunately, single parents with sole-custody have no need to grovel (unless it's directly related to personal intimacy with a significant other... ).

 

[Gina]

Hiya BD ~

I did the same thing based upon DCL's suggestion. Fortunately, single parents with sole-custody have no need to grovel (unless it's directly related to personal intimacy with a significant other... ).

As to the first thing, they like to do sole physical/joint conservatorship here... so that's what we have, unfortunately. So he has legal rights (*boggle*) but I do have sole physical custody. I can move my son to the moon if I feel like it. Sometimes I wish I could, just so the ex couldn't reach me and give me a hard time about things. I guess he'll be the mistake I pay for for the rest of my life. But I can live with that, because I got the best part of the deal -- an amazing little boy who is the light of my life.

And as to the second part... *runs to the dictionary to look up "personal intimacy" and "significant other"*
Those do sound vaguely familiar... I think I remember that I liked it...

-gina-

 

[Buckaroo's Dad]

they like to do sole physical/joint conservatorship here... so that's what we have, unfortunately.

Gina - New York does not yet have any form of "joint" custody. Certain groups have been pushing for it, but in my case it was unnecessary. The only way "joint" can be achieved presently is for both parents to agree to it. An interesting concept, but too many former couples have trouble agreeing to be in the same room together during pre-court screenings...

 

[floridaminnie]

I guess he'll be the mistake I pay for for the rest of my life. But I can live with that, because I got the best part of the deal -- an amazing little boy who is the light of my life.

Gina, I second you there. I got the best deal also, mine's a wonderful little girl.

 

[jennyl772003]

I did have a contigency plan in case deadbeat proved impossible to find. The happy ending to this story is that I will be getting married on my cruise, and shortly there after, my husband will be adopting my son (trying may be the better word). I will never understand how you could abandon someone as sweet and wonderful as my son... That being said, my fiance cannot picture life without him! I guess not all men are bad!

 

[floridaminnie]

Hey, can you clone your fiance and send him my way?

 

[jennyl772003]

Sorry, I wish I could! I should have gone to college...

 

[Gina]

Originally posted by jennyl772003
The happy ending to this story is that I will be getting married on my cruise, and shortly there after, my husband will be adopting my son

Congratulations!!!! That is so wonderful, Jenny. I wish you and your fiance and your son all the best.

Now, I think you do need to share where you found such a great guy!

-gina-

 

[floridaminnie]

I second Gina!

 

[jennyl772003]

I'm not telling until I have him safely shackled! You are going to have to wait! Only a week before I go though, so in 2 weeks I can tell!

 

[floridaminnie]

Ah, such a tease!

 

[Buckaroo's Dad]

Hi jennyl772003.

I'm not telling until I have him safely shackled!

I don't think shackling works. Heck, you had the first one shackled and look at what happened. Wish upon a star, not upon the whole sky...