Hello all:
I have been absent from the group for a while now. I am happy to say that things are going really well with new wife and there have been no issues between her and my son.
My ex-wife or my son's bio-mom stopped exercising her access rights back in 2010, soon after the spousal support was terminated. Since then there has been very little contact between the mother and son. I dropped him at her place just a couple of times on my own but that didn't go very well at all. A few times he called her over the phone but again no change in her behaviour. She tries to manipulate him every chance she gets and at this point our son is old enough to judge for himself. He is 13 now.
Aside from old history, the mom does not pay any child support. She ignores my requests to provide the tax returns. I am okay without any money, after all, its her choice not to be part of anything to do with our son.
There is one thing that is really starting to upset our son. She won't give him permission to travel anywhere. I think I can't even apply for his passport without her signatures. There has been few times we wanted to travel to Calgary, Regina and to USA to visit friends and relatives but we couldn't due to lack of travel consent from her.
I spoke to the lawyer. She suggests bringing a motion to vary to court order to remove/change the access and to remove the mobility restriction clause. I am double minded. After all, she is the mother. But then what else can I do?
At what age can the child travel on his own?
If I file for variation of the order, can our son be a party to the file through OCL?
What advice can you give me based on your experiences?
Thank you in advance.
I have been absent from the group for a while now. I am happy to say that things are going really well with new wife and there have been no issues between her and my son.
My ex-wife or my son's bio-mom stopped exercising her access rights back in 2010, soon after the spousal support was terminated. Since then there has been very little contact between the mother and son. I dropped him at her place just a couple of times on my own but that didn't go very well at all. A few times he called her over the phone but again no change in her behaviour. She tries to manipulate him every chance she gets and at this point our son is old enough to judge for himself. He is 13 now.
Aside from old history, the mom does not pay any child support. She ignores my requests to provide the tax returns. I am okay without any money, after all, its her choice not to be part of anything to do with our son.
There is one thing that is really starting to upset our son. She won't give him permission to travel anywhere. I think I can't even apply for his passport without her signatures. There has been few times we wanted to travel to Calgary, Regina and to USA to visit friends and relatives but we couldn't due to lack of travel consent from her.
I spoke to the lawyer. She suggests bringing a motion to vary to court order to remove/change the access and to remove the mobility restriction clause. I am double minded. After all, she is the mother. But then what else can I do?
At what age can the child travel on his own?
If I file for variation of the order, can our son be a party to the file through OCL?
What advice can you give me based on your experiences?
Thank you in advance.
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