Q: Mother of my daughter plans to leave the state. I don't want my daughter to leave. I pay child support, if that helps.
I pay child support. We never went to court, we made a verbal agreement on my visitation time. My daughter is 7, and I have been an active dad since the day she was born. Now her mom says she plans to leave the state. I don't want this to happen as I love my daughter and need to see her.
A:
You have two options.
1. Hire a lawyer and go to court to establish paternity, support and parenting time. Doing so means she must either get your permission to move the child out of state or she must get a court order allowing her to do so.
2. Do nothing and let her go.
That's it. Two options.
Noelle C. Cislo agrees with this answer
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