Am I allowed to move to different city from father of child?

[mammacub]

I want to move cities for purposes relating to mental health, work, and being closer to my sister. This however would mean moving a considerable distance away from father of child. He sees child 2-3 hours twice a week at the most.

You need to sort out access with him and as you're moving it's really up to you to make the concessions.

You could just move and then you'd have an excuse for calling him a deadbeat dad who doesn't see his child.

Well you could but you would have to agree to take and drop off the child for visits each weekend.

How would you like it if he had your child and moved away?

It seemed on what country to live in

In US he can apply to court to stop you moving states I believe

In U.K. you are free to move
He can try for prohibited steps before you move, arguing for full residency and that child is settled in school and he would provide more stability. Often a move is done quickly so it might be too late for him by then anyway.
However generally the RP can choose to move with child within same country and NRP is free to move any time anyway. You have to weigh up as really it would be ideal for a child to have their mum and dad nearby. It's much healthier for the child if these are good relqtionships.

*It depends on what country you live in

Sorry I don't know why autocorrect changed my first sentence

My husband’s ex did this and moved 60 miles away. It just became that if he wanted to see his child he would need to do all the running around, which he did every weekend for years until she moved back closer. It had a detrimental impact on everyone to be honest apart from his ex who was just doing what she liked.

Yes but you will need to facilitate contact, so doing the travelling back for contact. He could go to court and stop you moving

The father if he chooses can request a prohibited steps order stopping the children moving.

You can move wherever you want. But moving them does need to be mutually agreed.

The reasons you listed relate to you. The court would want to focus on the children. How the move would benefit or effect them. Including the strain it may put on their relationship with their father.

And I have seen flakey fathers obtain such an order. Even though contact was not very often.