Okay I'm going to rant a little bit here because I don't know where else to ask this kind of question. so my stepson lives with us full time, he's 10 in a week and I've been raising him since he was 4 and his mom is on the other side of Canada. I don't have any legal guardianship of him so I can't sign anything. Our my son was just diagnosed with autism and my husband works away from home for half the month and so if he needed any kind of treatment or therapy straight away I don't have the authority to sign the papers and his mom's on the other side of Canada. so my question is, is there any kind of legalized papers or something I can get that will also give me permission but not taking it awat from the mother? She is also involved, we're actually very close and almost friends I would say. we co-parent amazingly and she even comes and stays with us once every year or 2 to see her son. I keep her up to date on everything and we sometimes make decisions together. There is never any tension or arguments and we all get along. Weirdly enough she calls me Caleb's mom when she introduces me to people or when her and I are on the phone and someone is around. Sadly she just didn't want to be a full time mom and just can't raise him the way I do and have been. (words right out of her mouth when she says here 3 weeks ago).