In a comment to my original post on the residency restriction in texas, anonymous posts:

Chris, you said in your post that one way to maintain a geographical restriction is to stay active in your child’s life well, I’m here to tell you, that’s not the case in Guadalupe County, Texas. I’m a joint managing conservator or my children and even though my ex-wife is the “custodial” parent, I proved in Court that the children spent more than half the time with me, I testified confidently that I had been to EVERY significant even in their life since the divorce, and showed that I had a daily relationship with them. The judge still allowed my ex-wife to take my children and live 5 hours away with them. SHe claimed that she had been searching for a teaching position for 2 years within the geographical restrictions and I brought public information requests from all the school districts surrounding her residence that showed that she had NEVER applied to them for a job. Still, she got the restriction lifted. So, by no fault of my own, without me doing anything but be a good father, never missed a child support payment PLUS i paid for their daycare, my children were taken away from me and I’m helpless to having the court make my kids another statistic.

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