Interstate family law attorney Allison Maxim answers what to do if you have custody of your children and want to move out of state with them without falling into legal trouble.
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In Minnesota, there’s a relocation statute and if you want to move out of state with your children, it happens one of two ways, either by agreement. If the other parent agrees that you move out of state, then you’ll be in a position where you’re negotiating what that parent’s time is going to be like with the children across state lines, but if the other parent won’t agree, you have to petition the court and ask the court permission. There’s a statute that includes several factors that the court will consider on whether to grant you permission to move. Having a job out of state, a good job, may be one of the factors that the court considers but the court is really going to focus on the children and if the other parent has parenting time, the view of the court is that it’s in the children’s best interest to have their continued ongoing parenting time with that parent so you’re going to have to have very good reasons why it’s good for the children to move far away from one parent to another state before the court will grant you permission.