[PR1981]

I live in virginia metro area and my mother lives in Maryland. I am having relationship difficulties with the father of my soon to be baby daughter due in two weeks. He's been in trouble with the law plenty in the past. My question is ,if I have the baby in virginia and I end up separating from the father and move to my mothers just an hour away, will he be able to force me into keeping the baby in the state of virginia even though I would have no money and no resources there to depend on besides him? This is VERY important that I know this.

[ScottGem]

First this is a LEGAL question so has been moved from the Children form. Please choose the forum to post in more carefully in the future.

There is really no way to answer this authoritatively. Generally, if a non custodial parent has been granted visitation rights the custodial parent can't move if moving would make it difficult to enforce the visitation.

But with no court order in place, this make it a lot iffier. If you did move, and he files in VA court he could force you to return to VA. On the other hand an hours travel is not onerous on his being able to be a father.

You just have to move and see how the courts play this out.