By Jennifer M. Paine

Attorney, Cordell & Cordell, P.C., Detroit office

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part overview of overseas travel post-divorce. Click here to read Part 1.

Time to Use the Veto?

Has your ex threatened to take your children out of the country without your approval? Maybe to a secret destination? Do you think she has or will apply for passports? Does she already have them?

It may be time for you to exercise your veto with one or more of these options.

By Jennifer M. Paine

Attorney, Cordell & Cordell, P.C., Detroit office

Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part overview of overseas travel post-divorce. Click here to read Part 2.

Thinking about a trip with your children overseas for spring or summer break? Maybe a long weekend for a sightseeing safari, or volunteering in Haiti, or cruising in the Mediterranean this summer? Think again. If your children are 16 or younger and need passports, your ex could thwart your travel plans and send you back to court fighting first.

It’s a power woefully addressed in divorce decrees, if not wholly forgotten: the Two Parent Consent Law, i.e., the one parent veto power. Here is everything you need to know and how to avoid your ex’s veto.

Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• Tax issues with children in college, disabled children, and claiming grandchildren
• If my child will be 18 before my divorce is final, do we even need to address custody in the divorce?
• How do I get my fair share of the equity in our home?

Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• My ex-wife has continued to lie to my daughter causing alienation. Do I have any recourse against my ex-wife?
• My daughter was placed with my deceased ex's mother after a false allegation of sexual abuse. I was found innocent so how can I get full custody of my daughter back?
• My ex was awarded our home two years ago, but now it is scheduled for foreclosure. My name is still on the mortgage. What options do I have?
• Can the judge require that the custodial parent not be allowed to move farther away than they already are?
• Our divorce agreement says we cannot cohabitate while having parenting time with our child and we each have a first right of refusal when one of us cannot honor our parenting time. If these are being violated, how do you enforce and/or modify your custody order?

Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• Do I have any say in my wife's and children's living arrangements while we're going through a divorce?
• How can I keep my ex from repeatedly filing motions because she doesn't like the outcome?
• Our decree says we have to meet halfway to exchange the children, but both of us have since moved. So does the halfway rule still apply?
• I got married in the Philippines, so does the marriage apply here in the U.S.?