Q: Can ex husband run off with kids if they have been in my physical custody for over a year.i have a protective order
He's also on probation for felony charges. aggravated assault in the presence of a child. He beat me up in front of our two kids. it resulted in serious bodily injury. I had to receive surgery. We're also still legally married but have been separated since 2014. He was granted visitation every other weekend in utah. But I moved to California over a year ago cause he violated the protective order I had placed. So I moved away from him cause I was scared. He knows I'm in California. And talks to the kids over the phone he's been tottaly okay with me and the kids being out here. Even plans on moving out here when he gets off probation. But I'm afraid that when he does he'll try and run back to Utah with them.
A: The answer is probably not (i.e. he cannot run off with the kids), but the precise details are going to be complicated if for no other reason than you have Utah and California in the picture. At the end of the day, you need a court order stating that you have full physical custody of the kids and that his only contact is visitation. I can't tell if you have one of those or not right now.
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