ok i don't know where to start

i don't know where to start...please... i just need some helpcustody issues when stuck in a place with a barely there support system
I don't know if i'm doing this right so please do forgive me. It is my first time on this site, I just need some help.

I am a single mother of two little girls aged 3 and 4. Their father and I have not been together since before the youngest was born. I have full physical custody and joint legal custody of both girls. Here is where it gets sticky...the beginning of it anyways. I want to move out of the state of michigan. I have been told over and over again that I either have to have his permission or the permission of the court. The father does NOT get the girls every other weekend OR every other holiday, OR for the 4 weeks during the summer like he's supposed to in our parenting handbook. He has a new "baby momma" for lack of a better term who had his youngest daughter 2 months early. They have been going to her mother's house (whom they consider their "amma" or grandma) every other weekend and every other holiday for the past 4 years. Let me state again that they RARELY see their father. He knows he is more than welcome to come to my home and visit or come and get the girls and take them with him for a couple hours even if it is not his scheduled time. He doesn't. However, he DOES spend every waking minute that he's not working with the "new" baby. Try explaining that one to a 3 and 4 year old. I have mentioned to him a couple times, letting me move out of state. He refuses. I even asked him to sign off the rights, meaning he would no longer have to pay child support and still give him the visitation if he would just let me move. I have no family here, and a bare minimum of a support system. I came BACK to michigan because he stated that we would get married and be a family which obviously never happened. Now that I want to move, I don't know what to do. I don't know if sending the girls to their "amma's" house every other weekend and every other holiday is helping his side or not. I don't have the money for a lawyer, and i'm just stuck. I don't want to take their "amma" away from them, but if it IS helping his case then so be it I will. I have a support system set up in AZ and TX and NM which is the area where I want to move. Can someone please help me in leading me in the direction I need to go. I contacted the local legal aide here about a year ago and STILL have not recieved the paperwork... feel free to email me at headstrong_ma@Hotmail.com. thank you for your time. CoRrUpTeSs

Since you are low on funds for an attorney I would use the court system to the best of your ability. Find out from the court clerk how to petition the court to move out of state. Use all facts such as the children rarely see their father as stated in parenting plan. Be honest about your lack of support system in MI and that if you move your children will be better off. Also I would contact Legal Aide again. They are usually quite busy and might have lost your paperwork.