Hi, single dads.

I am in a complicated & heartbreaking situation. I've wanted to be a dad ever since I was little, and my dream came true last year but sadly my ex and I split in early February. I had to move out, while we had a now 8 month old beautiful boy. I am a 29 year old security guard at a train station and my ex is a 33 year old tax attorney. She recently served me with a parental plan as well as a plan to relocate across the country to her home state in Raleigh, North Carolina. We have began a legal custody battle as we both have hired expensive family law attorneys and I ask you all, what can I do to further even the odds & increase the likelihood of getting the result I want? I am flexible when it comes to custody sharing, but I've formally objected to her moving. I have attained my own 1 bedroom apartment and acquired all the necessary baby equipment to care for my son, like a bouncer, crib, changing table, clothes, diapers, the whole nine yards. My ex and I are here in Washington state alone with no family & friends. She proposed on the parenting plan that her dollar value can be stretched further & my son would have a loving family and helpful support system there as well as a job promotion. This would all be approved at the cost of my son not seeing a loving father (myself) but a mere 3 or 4x a year. I have given up smoking weed, made a loving home for my son, acquired a certification of completion for successful coparenting, acquired a court approved certificate of how to care for infants. I have a clean criminal background. I am not unfit or abusive. I have a clean driving record, I do not have roommates or pets and am not dating. I am terrified of losing my son & dream of being a present loving father, as I know firsthand how it feels to grow as a youth without one. What can I do? Please educate me & help my baby boy keep his father in his life.