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Denial of Custody Removal Request Upheld
Despite the trial court’s failure to have fully articulated the factors set forth in Baures, the Appellate Division upheld the determination denying the former wife’s request to relocate to Kansas City with the parties’ teenage son wherein the goal of the court was to seek “peace” between the parties for the four years of their son’s high school education; the son having now completed his first year of high school in New Jersey; and the trial judge’s extensive familiarity with this family and his long experience in the Family Part, as well as his clear reference to Baures, we defer to his finding that relocation would be “inimical” to the child’s interests, even though he did not explicitly review each of the pertinent factors. Barrett v. Barrett, New Jersey App. Div., July 30, 2012
