Can a parent relocate with the child after divorce? – Patterson Bray PLLC

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If you have a custody order once you have been divorced, and so long as the children are still minors and that custody order comes from Tennessee, you cannot relocate more than 50 miles from your current address or outside the state of Tennessee without the court’s permission or the other party’s agreement. And the way you go about that process is under Tennessee’s relocation statute.

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the first step is you have to send a letter to the other parent explaining that you intend to relocate and why you are relocating and if the other parent doesn’t object you can submit an updated and revised parenting plan order to the court if the other parent does object you go through a relocation petition process with the court where the court has to decide is this move

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proper, can the other parent move, and if the parent can move, what should be the new parenting schedule, what should be the new parenting plan, and what is in the best interest of the minor children.

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