Learn Center · 50 miles / 60 days — the statute with teeth
Moving 50+ miles from the current residence for 60+ consecutive days generally requires written agreement or a court order BEFORE the move (§ 61.13001).
The statute prescribes the petition contents, notice, objection windows, and the factors courts weigh — and it applies to either parent, not just the one with more time.
Moving first and asking later is the pattern that loses cases and sometimes time-sharing itself.
Job changes, remarriage, and family support commonly drive these cases; the analysis stays best-interests with relocation-specific factors.
Attorney-review note: Relocation is one of the platform's standing attorney-review triggers.
The statutory trigger is a move of 50 miles or more from the principal residence for at least 60 consecutive days (with narrow exceptions like healthcare and vacation). Measure before assuming.
Agreement works — in the statutory written form, with the time-sharing changes it requires, ratified appropriately. Handshakes are not agreements here.
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