PREVENTION

♦  If your child traveling abroad:

      »  Learn about where the child will stay abroad, with address and phone data.

      »  Check the tickets and especially that the child has return ticket, airline, dates and flight times.

♦  If you issue a travel authorization, it is convenient you make it:

       »  For certain periods of time.

       »  Indicating that authorization is only for holiday purposes.

       »  For each particular trip, with transcription of the destination and date of departure and return.

♦  If you fear that your child may be removed or retained abroad by the other parent:

       »  Revoke travel authorizations granted to the majority.

       »  Go to the judicial authorities and request the following:

              „  Determination of custody and right of access  for the parent not cohabitant.

              „  Prohibition from leaving the country.

              „  Delivery of passports and other travel documents.

              „  If the child traveling abroad with one parent:  Ask  the  judge  to  require  the parent information about the travel itinerary,  passport data of                      the parent and the  child, where the child will stay abroad, contact abroad, and to require the delivery of copies of airline tickets. 

              „  If  your  child  will  travel  to  visit  the  parent  residing  abroad:  Report the address and phone of the parent abroad, details of his/her work,                      family and friends abroad; Ask the judge an order to record the arrival and departure of the child at the Embassy of the destination country;                      Ask  the  judge  an  order  to present the child to the law enforcement authorities of the foreign location where it will remain for visits, etc.