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JoshDude
December 26th, 2006, 06:37 AM
Well personally i want to become a lawyer after i graduate from college, but one thing i cant really get into my head is this...

To get a valid passport into another country, you need parents signatures (if your under the age of eighteen). If you only have one biological parent, you only need one signature. But what i would like to know is, what can you do if you are under the age of 18 and one parent allows the travel into another country, whereas the other parent wont sign.

What can you do about it?
Bobby
December 26th, 2006, 10:05 AM
I don't think you can do anything. But i'm not 100% sure.
redcar
December 26th, 2006, 10:33 AM
well unless a court allows it, there is nothing that can be done. this is set up to protect the child.

also if you have only one parent, its very akward as well getting one. i know this from experience, i had to present the passport office with a death certificate and an affidavit signed in the presence of a solicitor that my dad is dead.

but again its all for the protection of the child.
mRojas2000
December 26th, 2006, 10:43 AM
Ha well my brother sorta had this problem, sorta.
My mom was trying to get him the venezuelan passport, but she needed his dad's signature too, but he was a bastard and my mom didn't want to deal with him and stuff, so she just got a lawyer and she did some things, and she was able to get him a passport without his signature... I think they have to really study this to become an actual lawyer because this isn't a 1 over 10000000000 case.
Whisper
December 26th, 2006, 01:26 PM
if your parents are divorced and the one who holds the majority of the custody allows it then i think you can
otherwise
you cant do anything i dont think
try and change there mind
LIsailer19
January 5th, 2007, 11:39 PM
it depends on the laws of your country, in your case i guess you can look up the laws of Australia. They will have this information on goverment websites, but i'm not sure what those sites are in Australia. In america though, i think a court order may decide this problem.
JJJ
January 31st, 2007, 03:33 PM
In britan the court desides but i think it depends on wether the parent who signed has more custody than the other.