Bates v. Bates

PITTMAN, Judge.

Daniel L. Bates (“the father”) appeals from a judgment of the Lauderdale Circuit Court granting Tiffany Bates (“the mother”) permission to relocate from Killen, Alabama, to Chandler, Arizona, with the parties’ two minor children. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

The parties were married in 1994. The father is in the United States Marine Corps; during the marriage, the parties lived together at Marine bases in Oklahoma, Florida, and North Carolina. In February 2006, while the mother and children were living in North Carolina and the father was deployed to Iraq, a…