I am hoping for some help/suggestions/guidance from anyone that may be or has been in this situation. My husband and his former wife have a custody arrangement in the state of PA with a 50/50 shared joint and physical custody of their three children. My husband has been looking for full time permanent work for almost three years now in our area and has had no success. He has found temporary work, but not permanent work. Thankfully, I have a job that provides medical benefits. I also cover the children since both my husband and his former wife do not have jobs that provide adequate health coverage for their children. The company I work for has locations throughout the United States and in Germany. We decided to research what positions are available in different states (preferably where it is not as cold as it is here). I found a position that is open in our Dallas, TX office.
Here comes the questions:
1) How do you go about sharing custody when you move outside of the state where right now both parents live? Per the custody order, he is required to inform the county and his former wife of his relocation.
We feel this move will be in the best interest of our family. Jobs seems to be more plentiful in this location. We also feel the school district in Texas is a great improvement compared to the school district the children currently attend.
We both feel his former wife is not going to cooperate with us once we inform her of our decision. We hope to inform her of all the good points, and come to an arrangement where the children live with us for the school year (with visitation to her during holidays) and then live with her during the summer months.
Has anyone ever gone through a move where one parent lives in one state, and the other parent lives in another state, where an original custody order is a 50/50 arrangement?
Here comes the questions:
1) How do you go about sharing custody when you move outside of the state where right now both parents live? Per the custody order, he is required to inform the county and his former wife of his relocation.
We feel this move will be in the best interest of our family. Jobs seems to be more plentiful in this location. We also feel the school district in Texas is a great improvement compared to the school district the children currently attend.
We both feel his former wife is not going to cooperate with us once we inform her of our decision. We hope to inform her of all the good points, and come to an arrangement where the children live with us for the school year (with visitation to her during holidays) and then live with her during the summer months.
Has anyone ever gone through a move where one parent lives in one state, and the other parent lives in another state, where an original custody order is a 50/50 arrangement?