do i have to pay travel fees when non custodial parent relocates?

Non custodial parent has been paying childs summer visits for 10 years, now the judge is making single parent with small income (proven) to pay for future travel arrangements for child to visit father in california and mother resides in new york for both spring and summertime. father only had to pay for summer. spring visits was just added. father is able to afford same attorney, mother has had 5, 18b attorneys. father had mother send to rikers island for 1 week for a warrant review.