Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Can Relocation be Forced?

My brother lives in Texas and just married a girl from Oregon. The girl has a 2 year old son. The boy's biological father, though having visited and known the boy, never made any attempt to have any legal rights to him. He's not on the birth certificate as the father and has never paid a dime in any sort of support. When my brother married this girl, they moved to Texas where my brother has a longstanding career. Initially the birth father said he wouldn't mind if my brother adopted the boy. But later admitted he thought he could get back together with the girl, and was going to fight till his last dime to do so. Now the birth father, is wanting to fight to have them forced to move back to Oregon because he now wants formal shared custody and visitation with the boy. I'm sure that he cares about the boy, but seems much more interested in rekindling a relationship with her - and she's worked desperately to get away from him - the last thing she wants is to be forced to be back around him again.

Can he force them to move back to Oregon? What rights do my brother and his new wife have?


Asked on 12/16/07, 4:50 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
James Grissom Law Office of James P. Grissom

Re: Can Relocation be Forced?

Rights? Well, they can get set to contest any action that the natural father might take -- or they could take action on their own. File a lawsuit in TX and preempt any thing the natural father might do. They could hire a lawyer to help them with this -- or sit back and wait for the guy in OR to do something first. Good Luck.

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Answered on 12/16/07, 5:04 pm


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