M.P. v. M.P.

OPINION BY

BENDER, J.

M.P. (Mother) appeals from the order entered on November 15, 2011, prohibiting her from traveling with her and M.P.’s (Father) daughter, born in June of 2008, to Ecuador to visit with extended family for three weeks. We reverse.

This present litigation began on July 14, 2011, when Mother filed a custody petition seeking permission to travel with her daughter to Ecuador, where Mother had been born and grew up.1 Father opposed the grant of the petition and a hearing was held on November 4, 2011, at which Mother, Father, and Pastor Patricia Lee testified. The following…