parental responsibility as daughter born 2002 and we did not marry A. Hi there Are you on the birth certificate as father? You should invite your ex to give you parental responsibility by agreement. This is very easy to do by completing a Parental responsibility form (downloaded from the http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmcts website) and registering it. If your ex will not agree, ask your family law solicitor to write a letter to her. If there is no agreement, you may apply to the court for this and providing that it is in the best interests of your child, it will be granted. Moving on to your question, if she will not give consent for you to take the child on holiday, you may apply to the court for permission (specific issues order). I advise that you do this at the same time as applying for parental responsibility. Again, providing that the child is not at risk of any harm and you give the necessary reassurances of safety and return, permission should be granted. Good luck. Q. We have a contact order in place to see our grandaughter.our daughters partner and family are stopping our contact,we dont want our daughter to be in trouble with court when she is being 2manipulated2 by them.What can we do? Thanks. A. Hi there I am sorry to hear about this. If you have an order in place I presume it is because contact was refused by the family initially. If you are committed to seeing your