In re Marriage of Collingbourne

Docket No. 94677–Agenda 15–March 2003.

In re MARRIAGE OF SORYIA COLLINGBOURNE, Appellant, and GEOFF B. COLLINGBOURNE, Appellee.

Opinion filed May 22, 2003.

Soryia Collingbourne, the custodial parent of the parties’ minor son Tyler, filed a petition in the circuit court of Kane County for leave to remove Tyler from the State of Illinois to Massachusetts. The circuit court granted the petition for removal, finding that the best interests of Tyler would be served by allowing him to move to Massachusetts with his mother. A majority of the appellate court reversed, holding that the circuit court’s…