F successfully appealed a decision allowing an appeal from a relocation order. M wanted either to relocate to Italy with the parties’ five-year-old son, or stay in the UK with him in her primary care. However, F wanted their son to remain in the UK with continued shared arrangements between him and M.
At first instance, the judge departed from the Cafcass officer’s recommendations and concluded on a fine balance that it would be in D’s best interests to remain in the UK and for both parents to share his care.