Marriage of Chen CA6

I. BACKGROUND

Father and Mother married on November 21, 2015, and separated on May 14, 2021. They have one minor child, E.C. After their separation, the parties stipulated to share joint legal and physical custody. In February 2022, Mother filed a request for an order allowing her to move to Moorhead, Minnesota with E.C. She stated she needed to relocate for health and stability reasons, Father worked many weekends, and after the move, E.C. would be surrounded by family. Elaborating in her accompanying declaration, Mother stated she was being treated for breast cancer, and had a support network of family and friends in Minnesota who could help with transportation, childcare, housing, and providing emotional support. Mother asserted her parents lived in Jamestown, North Dakota, an hour away, and her brother and cousins lived in Fargo, North Dakota, across the river from Moorhead. In her original petition for dissolution, filed in May 2021, she stated Father would have outbursts of anger, and he had hit their dog in the head. Father objected to the move, stating in his response he wanted to maintain joint legal and physical custody of E.C. with a 50/50 parenting plan. He…