[Arubalisa]

Originally Posted by Andrea J.

but she reiterated she had 0 issues flying from logan on AA on jan 30.

We never had anyone ask for verification or I.D. other than passports when we traveled with our foster child. Her mother did not grant permission for her [the child] to travel, but the judge was the one who "gets to" decide. He granted the court order. Never would we have wanted to take the chance that we were asked for documents and could not produce them as back up.

My brother, a divorced father, always travels with a letter from his ex-wife. He too has never been asked to see it, but imagine the kids standing on line at Aruban immigrations and the father being asked documentation and not having it? Like I said, why take the chance?

Without the "official" paperwork, airlines and governments have no way of determining parentage and custody.

A friend sent this to me late yesterday,
"Very important to have documentation for minor child that is not your own and for your child where parents are no longer together. We learned the hard way on our first trip to Aruba. My husband's son brought a friend. We had permission from my stepson's mother and his friend's mother. The friend's father had not been in the picture since he was young. Because we did not have a document stating mother had sole custody he could not go with us. We changed his flight to the next day and his mother took him to airport with documentation for him to board plane. "