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Mother Demonstrated Relocation to Mississippi Was In Best Interest of Child, Job and Family Support Available

In a full-fledged opinion by Justice Saxe, the First Department reversed Family Court and granted the mother’s petition for relocation with the couple’s child to Mississippi.  The mother’s inability to find sufficient work in New York, after several years of effort, coupled with job offers in Mississippi and the support of grandparents in Mississippi, were important factors:

In this relocation case, where respondent mother, Elizabeth E., seeks permission to move with the parties’ child to Oxford, Mississippi, we are once again confronted with the problem of balancing a child’s need for the ongoing presence of both parents in his daily life, with the custodial parent’s proven inability to support herself and the child beyond the subsistence level here in New York. * * *

Admittedly, the mother here is not (yet) destitute. Her financial situation is certainly not as bleak as that of the mother in Matter of Melissa Marie G. v John Christopher W. (73 AD3d 658, 658 [1st Dept 2010]), where this Court affirmed the grant of the mother’s application to relocate with the parties’ child to a stable home near the mother’s family in Florida, after she and the child had lived in a series of homeless shelters. However, while the need to improve the mother’s and child’s economic situation was far more extreme in that case, we find that the present relocation application was prompted by a legitimate, pressing need for a secure economic situation. Not only do we reject the unsupported suggestion that the mother actually had other, hidden, means of support, but we observe that proof of economic necessity does not require the parent to wait until she has used up every last dollar of her savings before taking steps to ensure that she will be able to care for the child’s future economic needs. Matter of Kevin McK v Elizabeth AE, 2013 NY Slip Op 06328, 1st Dept 10-1-13

 

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