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writes:I am living with my boyfriend of 6 years and we have a 1 year old son. My partner is a French national and I am British, our son was born in the UK and has a British Passport. Our relationship has been on and off for years and we virtually stopped being intimate over a year ago... I became pregnant by accident and my boyfriend wanted me to have a termination in order to make it easier for him to return to France.Thankfully I decided against this and we now have a lovely son, but the relationship is even worse between us, he resents me for going ahead with the pregnancy and now tells me I have ruined his life. We are only staying together because it is cheaper, my partner says he wants to go back to France but that he can take our son when he wants and this is what I wanted to know..what are his rights as a father? We are not married, though our son has my partners surname, we were also both present at the childs registration of birth.
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reader, eddie  +, writes (6 April 2007):
 If he's acting like a father now, I'd say he's entitled to have the rights of a father. Is he paying support? If so, then he should be entitled to the same rights as you. Why should his rights be any different? He may have acted like a jerk before the birth but maybe he's had a change of heart. Although I don't condone his behaviour, if he's the father and playing an active role, he deserves the same rights as you. Why wouldn'the? Would you like ti fi he told you you couldn't take you son somewhere?
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reader, Midge +, writes (5 April 2007):
 My sister has just been through this process since her husband in South African and she is a British National.
Since the children are british nationals your partner cannot take them out of the country without the concent of the mother.
What you do need to do is go to your local constabulary and tell them that your partner has threatened to do this. This way if anything happened and he did decide to take the kids the police would contact the airport straight away and have him stopped before he even got on the plane. I suggest you do this immediately! I would also suggest that if you can get a hold of his passport, you make a note of the number on his passport. It makes it easier to track him whereever he goes!
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