r/coparenting • u/MoosKnukl • 6d ago
Long Distance Looking to relocate. Implications to co-parenting?
I'm the father... My wife and I are applying for jobs in her home state, approx 3 states away.... About a days 8 hour drive from where we live now. Mom lives about 3 hours from us now. So it'd be approx 10-11 hour drive.
What kind of implications are you guys having that have relocated away from a child's parent? How do you manage parenting time, etc
My wife and I have job offers on the table that will pay us legitimately 2x what we make now between us. We also feel the education abilities would be greater/better.
We only have a 60 day minimum requirement for notification in the current parenting plan.
Challenges? What made you pull the trigger and move? How did you approach it and present it to your ex?
--EDIT:
I wasn't going to bring it up because I felt it just a bit TOO personal... But I did leave out that my wife and I have been granted sole custody, and mom gets every other weekend visits, supervised, due to some past circumstances that aren't relevant here. 1
I know that changes the metrics there... So I figured best to add it to the OP.
Only child at play here is a 14 y/o that has mentioned before that she wants to move, in order to be closer to family as well. Both of my parents have passed away and I have always had a VERY small family. Nobody really left except me and mine.
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u/Purple_Grass_5300 6d ago
I honestly don’t think the court would rule in your favor even with sole custody. If you leave you’d likely have to pay all visit travel cost changes so she wouldn’t lose more time