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Are you legally the kids' dad? AOP or birth certificate signed? DNA?

If not, she may be able to get passports without you.

File for paternity, custody, and child support and a restraining order to keep her from moving the kids pending a hearing.

You may have trouble getting full custody if she has been the main caregiver, and without real proof of her unfitness. Even if you did, don't count on getting CS from her.

If there are court orders, jurisdiction is where those orders are. And if at least one of the parties still lives there. If neither party lives there anymore, the case can be transferred, usually to the child's state.

If there are no orders, it's where the child has lived for more than 6 months.

OP will have to go to court, or have an attorney appear for him, in PA, assuming mom and child live there.

Way to go!! And GOOD for them!!

I've heard he is deceased.
But like you say, who knows?

He is doing what he should do to obtain his rights. Until he has court orders, he really has no rights and Mom can do as she pleases. Mom's behavior "all of a sudden" is because she wants to replace him with the "new daddy". I hope the court is aware of this, it will not look good on her. Is there a guardian ad litem (child's attorney) on the case?

When he gets court ordered parenting time, he can allow other family members to see her. What you can do, is be supportive of him. That's all. Let us know how things turn out.

Did you have a lawyer through any of this?  Why did they say you have to have supervised visitation?

He didn't say it was supervised. Just short frequent visits.

Your time may be limited because you and your child are getting re-acquainted, and she is young. At least you were given the option to modify down the road.

YOu cant let her be there for 6 months because she can then file there so try and make sure the case stays by you.

If court is in his state, and he remains there, the case should stay there.

If you haven't already, you can file to establish a long distance parenting plan. She'll have to abide by that.

If the parents can't agree on major things like his school, they need to let the judge decide so that the CHILD doesn't have to.

Dad could file for EOWeek since he is so close now. There needs to be a GAL on the case.

You may need to subpeona her boss to testify as to why she was fired.