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"My wife wants to move the kids from Toronto to Vancouver. Can I stop her?"

It's very important to consider all of the aspects with respect to your relationship with your children. How often do you see them? Is there an agreement in place that she can't move them? And what are the reasons for the move? Is your wife remarrying? Is it a job? You would have to look at all of those considerations. The court would determine whether or not it was in your children's best interests to move from Toronto to Vancouver while examining your relationship with them.

Evelyn Kohn Rayson is the founder of Rayson & Associates, a Toronto-based family-law firm. She has practiced solely in the area of Family Law since 1991 and belongs to the Ontario Bar Association, the National Association of Women and the Law, the Family Law Association and the Collaborative Family Law Association of Toronto. She can be reached at (416) 630-5600. View her Divorce Magazine profile.