Paternity of X.A.S. v. S.K.

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• holding that trial court erred in denying request to relocate filed by parent whose spouse’s service in the Navy required move to California
• recognizing that although moving the child to another state away from his mother would cause upheaval, “it would cause far greater upheaval to tear him away from his primary caregiver – the parent with whom he has lived for nearly a decade”
• noting the upheaval it would cause if the twelve-year-old child was removed from his custodial parent of nine years
• noting the upheaval it would cause if the twelve-year-old child was removed from his custodial parent of nine years
• explaining that a father who had recently married a member of the U.S. Navy whose ship was docked in California and who wished to relocate to California to live with his spouse presented a good faith and legitimate reason for the relocation
• explaining that a father who had recently married a member of the U.S. Navy whose ship was docked in California and who wished to relocate to California to live with his spouse presented a good faith and legitimate reason for the relocation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).