- Jurisdiction
- California
I'm an American Citizen born abroad bearing dual citizenship. I am a divorced dad I have joint custody an order that allows me to travel to my native country with my son. We have traveled many times in the past without any incident. Every time we traveled we returned on the day we were supposed to.
For this summer I gave my ex-wife the complete itinerary at the time I bought the tickets in October 2021. The departure was June 15, returning on July 13, which is also my birthday. She's very strict in counting the number of days allowed to me so she didn't concede me to stay a day more to celebrate my birthday in my native country. She is the custodian of our son's passport, so when it's her that needs something she doesn't even ask and takes it. Sometimes she also asks him to lie, few times I caught her and have evidence of it.
In May 2022 the airlines notified me that my return on July 13 had been canceled so I had to reschedule it. I could have chosen the day before, July 12, or the day after, I picked the latter and didn't tell her.
A few hours before we fly she found it out and didn't surrender the passport, saying that I lied, that I forged the tickets and that she doesn't trust me anymore, we lost our flight and we are still in California although I tried to convince her and depart on the next few days.
I tried to persuade her but she doesn't listen, she even doesn't listen to our son pleading to let him go, he really likes traveling in the country he was also born to, he speaks the language and has a lot of friends there. Her aversion towards me is stronger than her love for him.
Last night I sent her a very detailed email (which could be the basis for legal action and I am pretty sure whoever would read it could easily realize how wrong this woman is) with all the evidence that besides not disclosing the change of the flights to her I didn't do any wrongdoing and listed all the times she took our son away when it was my time with him or did something misleading. I have heard anything from her and knowing her I doubt I will.
I am desperate, I am losing money and more importantly, we are getting personal damages. My mom is 88 years old and she's impatiently to see her grandchild.
I don't know how to proceed further, at this very moment the only thing that comes to my mind is to go to talk to her in person and if she keeps refusing to give us the passport to call the Police to have her forcibly surrender it but I don't know if they can really help and also I'm afraid to make something that might go against me.
I am really desperate, thank you for all your help.
For this summer I gave my ex-wife the complete itinerary at the time I bought the tickets in October 2021. The departure was June 15, returning on July 13, which is also my birthday. She's very strict in counting the number of days allowed to me so she didn't concede me to stay a day more to celebrate my birthday in my native country. She is the custodian of our son's passport, so when it's her that needs something she doesn't even ask and takes it. Sometimes she also asks him to lie, few times I caught her and have evidence of it.
In May 2022 the airlines notified me that my return on July 13 had been canceled so I had to reschedule it. I could have chosen the day before, July 12, or the day after, I picked the latter and didn't tell her.
A few hours before we fly she found it out and didn't surrender the passport, saying that I lied, that I forged the tickets and that she doesn't trust me anymore, we lost our flight and we are still in California although I tried to convince her and depart on the next few days.
I tried to persuade her but she doesn't listen, she even doesn't listen to our son pleading to let him go, he really likes traveling in the country he was also born to, he speaks the language and has a lot of friends there. Her aversion towards me is stronger than her love for him.
Last night I sent her a very detailed email (which could be the basis for legal action and I am pretty sure whoever would read it could easily realize how wrong this woman is) with all the evidence that besides not disclosing the change of the flights to her I didn't do any wrongdoing and listed all the times she took our son away when it was my time with him or did something misleading. I have heard anything from her and knowing her I doubt I will.
I am desperate, I am losing money and more importantly, we are getting personal damages. My mom is 88 years old and she's impatiently to see her grandchild.
I don't know how to proceed further, at this very moment the only thing that comes to my mind is to go to talk to her in person and if she keeps refusing to give us the passport to call the Police to have her forcibly surrender it but I don't know if they can really help and also I'm afraid to make something that might go against me.
I am really desperate, thank you for all your help.