Custodial parents looking to move out of New Jersey have a difficult hill to climb if their ex-spouses object to the move, even if the move involves a better job or a new spouse.

That is the general consensus among New Jersey family lawyers in the wake of a landmark ruling last month by the state Supreme Court that changed the landscape for child relocation.

The court on Aug. 8 in Bisbing v. Bisbing reversed the 16-year-old precedent it set in Baures v. Lewis. There, in a decision written by now-retired Justice Virginia Long, the court said a custodial parent should be able to move to another state with his or her child so long as the move was made in good faith and was not “inimical to the best interests of the child.”