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A long distance co-parenting one

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NameChangeHelpPls · 11/12/2024 22:12

Resident parent wants to move away (but still be inside the UK).

What are the implications regarding co-parenting from a legal perspective?

The non-resident parent is extremely uncooperative and has a history of domestic abuse against the resident parent. He has every other weekend (Friday & Saturday overnight) and one / two alternating midweek overnights contact.

TIA.

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Hayley1256 · 11/12/2024 22:14

As far as I'm aware you would need consent to change schools etc and move them outside of what would be considered a reasonable distance. You may have to go to court

wildtimeswilder · 11/12/2024 22:31

Speaking not as a lawyer but someone getting bumped through this right now, the court process for relocation away from someone uncooperative is an intense and spectacularly expensive kind of hell. I think if you already have a lives with order you may have a free pass. But if not...they keep encouraging you to agree but of course the unco-operative one will not, then they punish you both by making up their own arrangements you have to follow in the meantime that are worse than the original situation, there are a million time consuming and expensive things to do in the process and the end result is all "child focused" which seems to translate to nothing must change for the child unless they're in actual danger, it makes no difference if the current setup benefits the asshole parent and punishes the long suffering one, it stays how it is but with everyone a lot poorer.

As you can see I'm feeling a little frustrated. I hope someone will cheer me up by telling me I'm wrong.

This page covers quite a bit of it. family-law.co.uk/services/children-family/relocation-of-children/

NameChangeHelpPls · 12/12/2024 00:42

wildtimeswilder · 11/12/2024 22:31

Speaking not as a lawyer but someone getting bumped through this right now, the court process for relocation away from someone uncooperative is an intense and spectacularly expensive kind of hell. I think if you already have a lives with order you may have a free pass. But if not...they keep encouraging you to agree but of course the unco-operative one will not, then they punish you both by making up their own arrangements you have to follow in the meantime that are worse than the original situation, there are a million time consuming and expensive things to do in the process and the end result is all "child focused" which seems to translate to nothing must change for the child unless they're in actual danger, it makes no difference if the current setup benefits the asshole parent and punishes the long suffering one, it stays how it is but with everyone a lot poorer.

As you can see I'm feeling a little frustrated. I hope someone will cheer me up by telling me I'm wrong.

This page covers quite a bit of it. family-law.co.uk/services/children-family/relocation-of-children/

Gosh, I absolutely get you. There were endless court hearings over which nursery to use, which primary school etc etc. He always chooses the least best and drags it out to the nth degree. Even his barrister gave up last time and said he couldn’t be reasoned with. 😞 sounds like you’re dealing with his twin arsehole brother.
oh dear. 😕

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