In 2016, the case of DKD v. ALC, 141 A.3d 566 (Pa. Super. 2016) was decided by the Pennsylvania Superior Court and appeared to drive the final nail in the coffin of the relocation analysis set forth in the case of Gruber v. Gruber, 583 A.2d 434 (Pa. Super. 1990). However, the recent case of Carrero v. Lopez, 2023 Pa. Super. 140 (July 28, 2023) provides the exclamation mark to the death of the Gruber case.. Relocation cases are some of the most difficult and emotional child custody cases. Prior to the Custody Act of 2011, relocation cases in Pennsylvania were governed by Gruber and its progeny. The Gruber case provided a three-pronged analysis. Essential to the analysis was the interpretation that the parent seeking relocation was not required to show an independent benefit to the children apart from a substantial improvement in the relocating parent's quality of life. In discussing Gruber, the Superior Court, in Carrero, stated: "the idea was, if the relocation benefited the relocating custodial parent, then the parent's benefit would automatically 'flow to the children.'" There was also a line of cases that did not subscribe to the "trickle down" "flow to the children" theory, but the majority of the relocation cases that existed post-Gruber subscribed to the "trickle down" "flow to the children" theory.