A divorced parent need not have a job lined up in order to move with her child out of state, a state judge held in a ruling approved for publication Monday.

"The most practical and relevant inquiry is not whether the moving parent has a guaranteed job, but rather whether she has a reasonable plan for providing the child in her care with an economically stable home in the new state," Ocean County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones said in Benjamin v. Benjamin, FM-15-1212-08-N.