Family and relationships question:

Hello, I am looking for advice regarding the legal parental responsibilities and emigrating. I'll give you a bit of background information. I have a son who is 7 now, who I had with my ex partner, we we're never married. In June 2012 we split up because he was a compulsive liar and "went to Germany to visit his dad who he'd never met bacause he was in a coma". Unknown to him my cousin who was an army wife out there at the time (in the same area of the said father there) rang around the hospitals to see whether he was in any of them, finding a rare welsh named person in a coma would have been easy to find, yet he wasn't in any of them, strange. So this was the main reason we broke up. He stayed over there for a few months until about October, saw our son a couple of times and then went back over for a couple of months after running up his grandads credit card to 400 pound, leaving our son devastated. He then came back to live locally in a bedsit until he found somewhere more private. Since then he's moved house about 3-4 times not giving our son a stable environment, so visiting has been a bit shaky. He can't hold down a job and never could even while we were together, creating financial insecurity also. He is now with another woman with 2 children. He see's our son when it suits him and only contacts me when it suits him, he never replies to any communication I send him. He constantly let's our son down and has paid me approximately 3 weeks maintenance totally 60 pound since we broke up. Now then, I am in my final year of University and the likelihood of me getting a job in this area with all of the budget cuts are extremely low, therefore I want to move to America where the job opportunities are endless, but mainly to create a better life for my son. What are the chances of me being able to leave? Could he stop me? What are my rights? Its seems a bit unfair to put all our lives on hold for the sake of a part part-time dad! Any information and advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. P.S. His name is on the birth certificate but we were never married. My child was born in 2006.

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