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hello , regards to everybody, i split with my ex around two years ago and she and my 4 year daughter moved from our home in far north west queensland to maryborough qld , now for me to visit my daughter it is either an 18 hr drive or an 3 hr flight(which you get extremely slugged for) to brisbane get a hire car then nearly a three hour drive to maryborough which i have done both plenty of times and is a massive pain in the guts. My question is yeah she is in the same state but can she legally still be be so far away and so inaccesible for me to see my daughter ?
Hi there
As you probably know this is a UK based forum and the advice we give is based on English family law. We get Dads here who's ex's have moved to the other end of the country, or as far as Scotland, but even then it doesn't entail anything near an 18 hour drive! I can only imagine how hard this must be for you.
You would need to contact an advice agency, or a solicitor in Australia to get the correct information about your rights concerning this, but it's my feeling that if she has lived there for the past two years there won't be much you could do about it now. Have you thought of moving closer to her?
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