Posting on behalf of a friend who wants to leave her EA and FA DH and take her toddler DD and move out to live with her family a couple of hours away (she has nowhere to go in their current town). Her DH will not like this. She's happy to facilitate contact but what's to stop him taking her DD after contact and refusing to let my friend see her? He has never done any childcare but will dump DD at his DM's who would be only too pleased to have DD to herself. She'd go have to go to court right but how long would that take? And if he doesn't comply with the court order? I understand that the police won't return a child who is with a parent with parental responsibility. She's desperate to leave but terrified of losing her DD. Her DH is not a pleasant man and would do this to spite her, aided and abetted by his family who are very wealthy. She can't see a way out without having to rely on her DH to be reasonable which is unlikely.