I had a child in my marriage, also had 2 other children prior. Anyway it didn't end well and avo had to be placed. Child protection were involved as he was an unpredictable risk whilst on drugs and alcohol he is extraordinary violent at the best of times and has been on charges prior for hurting my eldest child. Now I want to know how I got about severing his parental rights and having full custody so I can change my child's name and know that he is protected in the future. he's gone on and had God knows how many kids in the last 12months I cant keep track and I just want to never have to hear about it again everyone tells me saying my son who is 3 should know but I dont want him to know not until his older and understands everything that has happened and the danger he and his sisters were in.
Has anyone been through this? Child protection are in support of this course of action as he is to never be around my kids again or I face loosing them. Advice thanks
Severing parental responsibility
Severing parental responsibility
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YOU can’t get his rights taken off him. You could possibly take the matter to court and a judge might agree, but it’s more of an American thing.
There is no such thing as full custody anymore. You might have 100% residential care, but custody no.
Changing a child’s name is difficult, he has to agree and sign that paperwork, plus prove his identity with ID and stat decs. You can take the matter to court and have a judge decide if he Ealing sign
Full custody doesn’t mean you can change a child’s name without the other person agreeing
If hes not allowed to ever parent the child again, then you should be able to terminate his rights so that you can do things like get passports, change names etc without a 2nd parent signature. I'd say it's through court.
As a partner of someone who has lost all custody, simply for not turning up at the court on the day. You still require the other parents signature to change their last name and get a passport.
Even a dangerous partner with violence related history against them.
If he made them he will always have rights to that child.
The best thing to do is speak to a lawyer. A community legal service or women’s legal centre should be able to point you in the right direction.
Legal papers aren’t going to stop telling you stuff though
You don’t want to poke the bear, do only what is required to live a safe life and engage with a legal professional. Anything else is dangerous, don’t take advice from strangers online.
Court. By pass mediation due to avo.
Sole parental responsibility.
Get support letters from child safety with their recommendations of no contact.
Then yes you can legally change your child’s surname (in QLD anyway).
If you’re not in QLD then look up change of name for your state or while in court ask them to approve an application to dispense his rights for a change of name.
Courts will still request approval from the other parent - I've been there and tried it.
The best I got was both sir names. When it came to getting my children key cards the banks took their fathers sir name, same with prescription medication. Primary/ high school has been the only place that took my sir name.
I’m in qld and still can’t change my children’s names with out his consent. It doesn’t matter that I have full parental responsibility. he hasn’t seen them in 5 years, they are 5 and 7. And he won’t see them again as he is in prison for a very long time. I still need him to sign the paperwork for a name change or passport.
I have ‘sole’ parental responsibility including all major long term issues and supervised visits (which the father has never used). I had my kids names both changed without the approval of their biological father. I had to pay the change of name fee and sign a stat dec stating the reasons for the change as well as provide a copy of the court orders. I didn’t have any issues at all.
Prehaps the rules have been changed. This was done in 2011