thank you maybe see has ever authorize a relocation this is not a case where on earth where the syrup and was experiencing instability and her job were miss sarah palin wanted to move to a different state to be closer to family where he cultural activities for the child would be greater nor is it a case your honor even recognized by the trial court where the financial circumstances are going to be greatly improved i recognize your honour's and judge hill had a very difficult decision to make she recognized that herself in her written ruling she started out by indicating that this was a very close case even when looking at all of the factors it was a close case churchill then proceeded to find three of the eleven factors slightly organs favor and i believe that those find that finding and conclusions and ruling was against the manifest way of the evidence and i want to talk to the court about those three circumstances or factors as well as the impact on this twelve year old child that factor being found by judge hill as being neutral which i believe was again against the manifest weight of the evidence when through these circumstances in the reasons for relocation in this case located a job on line a state farm in april apply for the job in dallas texas and accepted the job a month later it is the same job he is in while she resides in bloomington she is a security analyst in bloomington she will be a security analyst in dallas texas in fact it became clear at trial that not only in bloomington is she a security a but within days after the hearing she was going to receive a promotion to team lead of the sick in the security analyst area her salary in bloomington including her incentives were one hundred eleven thousand dollars we don't know what the increase was going to be for her when she became part of me the team lead to shoot we know she was going to have an increase what that increase was going to be we don't know her salary in dallas was going to be one hundred six thousand five hundred dollars her financial circumstances as reflected and as the court was directed to exhibit twenty three were fine where she was in fact that exhibit would reflect almost two hundred ninety thousand dollars and for a one k benefits seventy thousand dollars in savings so she wasn't moving because this was going to to move because they say well in my own opinion without anyone from from state farm saying yes you're going to advance in this in this stage of time or period of time that  sufficient reason to allow removeable we don't know if she's going to advance in fact again she had danced in bloomington from the time she became security analysts she's  serafin had done nothing to try to find a security analyst position that would keep her right where she was in bloomington or somewhere else in illinois there were other security analyst positions in the state of illinois in bloomington working from home so the circumstances and reasons for her for her decision to move  moving the child somewhere where there were no family arguably one friend that she had testified mr rogers who had children one friend in in texas they circumstances also when we consider serafin testified well it would be difficult for me to work with my coworkers from state farm when they are in dallas and where bloomington your honors we have thousands of people employed by state farm in bloomington and if they are allowed to merely come into court and indicate well it be better if i move because i'll be closer to my post to my coworkers even when there are positions available in bloomington is certainly going to open the floodgates to individuals locating moving their children out of the state of illinois away from a parent who miss and the child the twelve year old child are now going to experience that's what they're going to experience first significant periods of delay of personal contact and i will get back to that with regard to the second children did well in should explore where this young child attended school she couldn't say that her children would not have succeeded just as well had they stayed here and attended school here  in bloomington illinois especially your honors when zoe was doing so well she was a straight a student she excelled in classes and excelled in and in the extracurricular activities she participated in the third factor that the court found was slightly in in miss sarah palin's favor was whether or when you consider that with the child living in bloomington he saw that child at least every seven days one week see him see her on wednesday evenings there would be a seven day period where he wouldn't see or her on the seventh day the second week he see that child every four days and now with the schedule in place zoe and mr serafin will not see each other for three or four month periods of time three or four month periods of time depending on if it's the year that he has he has thanksgiving that would be a spree month period it's a year he has december that's going to be a four month period with no personal contact when mr sharon testified about how close he was with this child how he hugged her every time he saw our answer about her day if we look at the photographs which i'm sure the court has seen pictures of all the things he does on a regular basis with this twelve year old child but i think most importantly we have a twelve year old child who's going to turn thirteen the thirteen year old is not going to want to come back to bloomington and spend all summer a thirteen year old is not going to want to spend every christmas with dad outside away from the friends that she will develop over time in texas it's going to seriously impact the situation for for any judge to be in judge hill found or reasoned that if she believed this sarabande then everything would be positive was positive for moving zoe and judge hill indicated that my client's concern about the impact on zoe was that she would not see the extended family that was not the extent of mr sharon's testimony within seven days he was really sad he also indicated all the things he activities they've participated in testified about the activities and we do have here an extended family  thirteen extended family members who saw oz oh we two three times a month at least not including all of the holidays not including one month of birth one birthday celebration per  month with extended family members we have a grandmother and grandfather and grandmother partially raise this child till she was in first second grade dressed her every morning took her to school these are will have i will have to tell my clients if someone wants to move if they find a different position even if it's the same pay etc there's no reason to for individuals to  to try to try these matters anymore it will allow people to easily relocate their children and i don't believe that's the purpose of the relocation so after thank you your honor thank you council this this because relocation to texas isn't always best interests the trial court order in this case was thoughtful and explore each of the statutory factors and ruling on the relocation petition there are numerous reasons why relocation was and so is best interests and i will focus on two main reasons today first is the improvement to orleans financial situation to increase income and opportunities for advancement that are available in texas and second is the enhanced educational opportunities so we will have available to her in texas based on parenting time schedule as ordered by the trial court to have essentially the same amount of parenting time following the move as he did wins only lived in illinois so zoe will be able to have a better quality of life in texas and still enjoy a good relationship with her father improvement to arlene's financial situation early discussed the opportunity for security analyst with mission that became available at state farm's dallas location she described it if you remain in wilmington she would not have an opportunity for additional promotions as has as she is at the top level of a position in illinois that's a farm based upon her knowledge of state farm she describes the direction of the company is headed towards new locations away from wilmington meaning that the new locations are opportunities for management positions and other growth that's as of the time of trial earlier was going to be a team leader she described why she would not be able to be successful in that role when her team was in texas and she was in bloomington she further explained successful in that position be detrimental to her reputation and further possibilities for advancement at state farm in addition to the career advancement opportunities that she described with move to texas arlene also experienced significant financial benefits from her base salary increased by approximately seven thousand dollars and also for bonuses with and started a higher level as they are tied to your base salary early describe the numerous benefits she would directly receive as a cult move is include a lump sum relocation payment which was equal to six weeks of her salary and nonprofessional relocation payment which is equal to five percent of her texas salary at the time of relocation she explained that overall overall her income would be enhanced and her expenses would be lower in texas which  who would benefit from advanced courses and being challenged by her studies that unifies only not receive high school credit for any courses she took while in junior high she would receive massive credit for such courses at the violet schools additionally there are no korea dance placement courses offered you know five but there are such courses available at the y the schools arlene's witness jennifer rogers for children previously ten or you know five and currently attend schools in texas testified regarding the increased education opportunities available  that is why the trial court correctly recognizes this factor did weigh in favor of the bill cation to texas under the parenting time schedule the trial court ordered him to have essentially the same amount of parenting time and so he as he did when the child lived in illinois naturally there will be longer intervals of time between each instance of parenting time to the distance but to be able to maintain their relationship when they spend time together under the new schedule tim will be able to send spend extended blocks of time with zoe rather than aggrieved a period every that the party's merril settlement agreement provided that the child could attend any school and it was up to the mother to decide so if there were any concerns about where zoe would attend school  certainly we could even be looking at private schools and that argument was raised however when looking into a comparison of the two schools in texas and normal community school high school they are the schools were at worst possible we have a child who excel in schools so is there a somewhat higher and i'm making councils argument but is there someone higher percentage this shows up in the texas school where the children are more prepared for college and i do think there was some want of a smaller percentage i'm sorry larger percentage higher percentage prepared for college don't have any issue was always always a straight a student she would have been well prepared would be well prepared going through normal normal community high school with regard to personalit and i'm sure that the court is aware even judge hill was concerned about the sara friends motives in commenting we of course didn't push the envelope to trial because we just wanted what was best what was best was when she became when she became the team lead i submit here on our set a six thousand dollars six seven thousand dollars a year increase when again we don't know with certainty that  wouldn't receive that in bloomington does not outweigh does not outweigh removing relocating this child from a highly active parent with thirteen extended family members thank you thank you council will take this matter