Bray v. Watson CA4/1
Appellant Brandon Watson, the father in this move-away case (Father), challenges the family court’s order awarding primary custody of his now three-year-old daughter A. to respondent Farrah Bray (Mother) in conjunction with a family move to North Carolina. As is increasingly common, both parties in this family law appeal are self-represented, and we fully appreciate the significant challenges self-represented litigants face in both the trial and appellate courts. These challenges are only compounded by the anxieties and frustrations inherent in a move-away request, where most often there is no “happy” solution. Parents who could otherwise share the custody and companionship of their child while living in the same community cannot both have the same “frequent and continuing contact” with their child when they live on opposite coasts. (See Fam. Code, § 3040, subd. (a)(1).)
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