My ex plans on moving away with my kids?

Hire a lawyer.

Every state has some form of a parentage act. The act also calls for determination of fitness for custody, visitation rights and also may prohibit the mother from removing the child from the jurisdiction and away from the father, and vice versa if the father has custody and wants to move the kids away.

You need to file a petition to establish paternity and child custody. Do it first, have her served first.

Let the Court know what she has planned, and ask for an injunction, temporary orders, a visitation schedule, and make sure the order is enforceable through contempt.

Its the only thing you can legally do.

Okay, first things first. WHERE IS YOUR FAMILY IN THIS? They all need to be coming together and ponying up money so that you can proceed.

The new boyfriend can't adopt YOUR children without YOUR consent.

What you need is an IL attorney to give you some advice. Start calling the closest Legal Aid society to where you used to live, and see if you need to physically return to IL in order to obtain an injunction in order to prevent this woman from leaving the state with your children. Ask the attorney how your rights as a father are affected by the fact that you never married the mother. If you would like joint custody, ask the attorney about this. What this will mean in reality is that the children will divide their time between you and their mother until they're old enough for full time school, at which time it will be school vacations and summers with you.

As soon as you contact a Legal Aid attorney, start working overtime to get yourself the type of job or jobs you will need to prove your fitness as a father to a court. You are financially responsible for the support of your children, as all fathers are, and YOUR family should be helping you achieve this as much as possible.

Listen to me here. You have made it very clear that you have no money and that has to become your main focus for the time being. I'm only trying to help you when I say this, but only fight this woman if you have no other choice because right now, as it stand, YOU WILL LOSE! I would advise you to try and get along with her as best you can but not keep pushing the kids/new boyfriend issue. If the kids were yours before you and her broke up they will still be yours when you get to a position to fight for them. Remember, you have no money! Oh you can allow emotions and people to fool you to get the court involved in this but you need to know that you are going to be hit almost immediately with child support and YOU HAVE NO MONEY!

You don't need money for a lawyer . There,s a public lawyer for people who are on no income or low income. Go immediately and see one. Your x cannot take your children to another state without you say. so please go see a lawyer straight away. When you do get your rights to the children make sure you always do it by the book or you can loose your kids. When its your visitation make sure you always turn up to have them.. Dont make up excuses for not having your kids. Also dont let a women take your power away .

-And this is the problem for people who choose to procreate OUT of marriage...no security whatsoever; custodial issues muddled and rights are compromised BECAUSE? No marriage.

You need to get on your feet with stability; a steady job; place to live; car that runs.

THEN, you can think about visiting your kids and finding out what rights you DO have under law - presumably the state in which you two lived/procreated...but that? You must check out with a lawyer FOR SURE before you reapproach the situation.

You have regrets. You screwed up. She wants nothing to do with you. So get your life TOGETHER FIRST, then seek to reintroduce yourself to your children. It's up to you? WHERE you do this - where they live or where you are.

You have a few major decisions to make here...I suggest you take it one day/one crisis at a time!

Grace

As an unmarried father, you have very few rights. In order to have any chance at all, you NEED a lawyer. Don't tell me you can't afford one. You can't afford NOT to have one.

Let the court know, there are requirements on how available the kids have to be to the father.

im sorry but if you have no money for a lawyer there is really nothing you can do besides kiss some serious ****

Sneak into her place one night and eat both kids. That way they will be a part of you and she can never have that back.

do u have any blame in why she did this TO you ? just a thought..............