[GA]Transportation, moving closer to the meeting location..
Primary custodial parent here. Our custody order from a 2 years ago specifically names the Lexington Police Department in SC as the exchange location. At the time, it was roughly halfway between us.
Now I live near Lexington, SC and dad lives in Fuquay-Varina, NC, so he does almost all of the driving to exchanges. He’s not against relocation itself and we’ve been discussing longer summer visitation and possibly flights in the future if distance increases more.
His position is basically that the original intent of Lexington was “fairness”, even though the order itself doesn’t say “meet halfway” — it specifically names Lexington PD. Usually it is 3 hours for me three back and him the same. If we moved to the meet location we would be right in Lexington. He usually has other people do the drives for home including my other daughter’s grandparents.
I am married with 3 other children in home so moving CLOSER TO the meeting spot makes it easier. He is now asking me to meet halfway to where he is once again which is 2 hours and that at this point defeats the purpose of us moving so I am having second thoughts.
Curious if anyone has dealt with something similar:
- Did courts stick strictly to the written exchange location?
- Or did judges later reinterpret it based on fairness once circumstances changed?
- Did transportation get rebalanced?
- Did anyone move to airport exchanges or alternating pickup/dropoff instead?
Not looking for attacks on either parent, just real experiences with how transportation fairness was handled over time.