leaving the state with your chld ( need some advise)
This happened with my best friend. She moved to Victoria with her hubby when the baby was first born and they split up when she was only 4 months old. She put in an application saying that she had no support, he didn't take the child on the weekends he was supposed to and when he did he arrived late on saturday and dropped her home first thing sunday morning instead of having her from friday night to monday morning. She stated that he was of no support, however both sets of grandparents were living in North Qld, she had asked about her old position where she worked and they said she could have that job back again as the current worker was leaving so they held the position for her, and she also said that aunties and uncles and other extended family lived in north qld so she wanted to move back so her daughter would have more family around her, she could spend time with her cousins who are all around that age. It took about 6 months to go through but she moved back here and he has since moved to cairns anyway with his work so he would have been moving away from the child if they hadn't moved up. She will have to go into detail though, I know how much paperwork had to be filled out, and also diary entries of when the child spent time with her father, all those times he didn't pick her up or he had her for half the time he was meant to have her, the reason for their break-up (the child cried at night and she was always told to "shut that kid up" and it broke her heart) and the way the child is far more settled when it's just mum than she is when dad comes to see her. South Australia and Melbourne aren't as far apart as Melbourne and Townsville! Good luck to her, I hope things go in her favour.
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