My question involves paternity law for the State of: Missouri

i have a situation.

i am the custodial parent of my son, have been from day one, his father refused to show to put his name on the birth cirtificate before we left for home so his name is not on the birth cirtificate.

we are both 100% our little boy is his, he's 7 months this upcoming thursday and his father has only botherd to see him a handful of times. problem being, his dad is abusive to me. i have one assult case he plead guilty to while i was pregnant and the scars to show for it and then this past july he has another on me that he was found guilty to and is now serving a one year probation period in which he can't be in contact with me in any way. his family can't be trusted, people in common can't be trusted and i have no one that could protect my son enough to go for visits, so he won't see our son either.

i have TANF coming in and they make you file for child support, now i'm sure this has been asked a dozen times but will that effect what rights he has?

i refuse to go for custody strictly because our town has a very bad reputation for cutting supervised visit sentencing down on account of "good behavior" or whatever they wanna call it. my ex is mean, hateful, vindictive and despite all my efforts to include him, he never gave two sh**s untill i told him i didn't want him to babysit my son alone. the police and the court are worried that he will kidnap my son and harbor him from me, in which they couldn't get him back, or so they say.

i'm thinking about moving out of town, about two hours away in a better town for work and so i don't have to put up with death threats and harassment anymore. is this possible to do?? can he get parental kidnapping on me?? is there anything that i would have to do before the move?? would i even have to tell him i'm moving??

thank you in advance, this question is weighing on me and i'm in a new relationship with someone that cares for us both very much and we'd be moving with him.. i just want to avoid trouble, my poor son going through hell, and possibly more abuse from him.