My XH and I have been divorced for 6 1/2 years. He's remarried and I'm single. I stayed in the surrounding area despite having no family so that the children could maintain a relationship with him despite our differences. It was not an amicable divorce. I left him after 4 years of domestic abuse etc.
My XH and I both have parental responsibility. We have 3 children aged 13, 12 and 7. Currently we live within a 10 minute drive of each other. Our 13 year old has been living with him for the last 18 months so she can be closer to friends from school etc. The other 2 live with me and have access to him every other Friday and every other weekend.
He is now seriously looking to move to Scotland and wants to take all 3 children with him. We currently live in the South West so Scotland is not an easy journey. Our 12 year old daughter has been under the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services since she was 2. He's a great emotional manipulator and will cry in front of the children if he isn't getting them to do what he wants and so they agree through guilt and fear of making him unhappy.
Do I have any legal standing to stop him from taking them to Scotland.
I'm having a sit down with him and his wife on Tuesday evening and taking my Dad with me so I'm not alone.
Many thanks.