Malimir7

She has been with us for six months. Dad lives 12 hours away. I have never met him, only spoken with him briefly on the phone once, and only a few text messages. I text him, but he doesn’t respond. I was her teacher last year and she asked me if I would adopt her. She knew we adopted children. We worked with Cps and the family member she was staying with and now she’s with us. But we don’t have legal custody of her. we are working with the courts, but courts are difficult and expensive

Again, thank you so much! Extremely helpful

Thank you for this! Do you mind sending me the link to the document you referenced?

Thank you for the input. As far as we can tell, by court documents, her legal guardian right now is her biological father. I have made multiple attempts to contact him, but he is very sporadic in responding.

We have a 15-year-old girl leaving with us who is going on our cruise. Her mother is deceased, and her dad is MIA. I called MSC and they told me all I need is her birth certificate which we have. However, Google search finds comments that we need an affidavit saying we can travel with her, but I cannot find anything anywhere "official" that says we have to have it. My question is, has anyone traveled with MSC with a child that is not related to them with just their birth certificate? My biggest fear is we get to the cruise port and they deny her boarding, then I have to miss the cruise with the rest of my family. Thanks in advance, Jody