After a lengthy custody battle in which Gina M. Ocon '98 won the right to return to Cambridge with her baby daughter, Bailey, her ex-boyfriend announced that he will also make the trans-continental move.

Tommasso Maggiorre's decision, which came just three days before the parties were scheduled to return to court to establish the details of visitation, left Ocon with "mixed feelings."

"It's wonderful for Bailey, but I just found out this week," she said. "We've been fighting for nine months, and I just found out that he's willing to move."

Ocon's attorney, Gloria Allred said she shared Ocon's ambivalence.

"It would have saved a lot of time and expense and avoided a custody battle if he had agreed that she could move to Harvard with the baby and he would move also," she said.

While Allred said she approved of Maggiorre's effort to be a part of his daughter's life, she was somewhat hesitant about his decision.

"I think it's positive that he wants to continue to be involved in the child's life, but I say that with caution," she said. "If it's to be involved in the baby's life, that's good. If it's to control [Ocon's] life, then we'll see."

Ocon said she hopes that his presence on the East coast "doesn't become an emotional drain." However, she said she looks forward to having Maggiore "as a resource" to help care for Bailey.

Ocon said she is particularly concerned with how Maggiore will handle the relocation.

"For him it will be a major transition because he's never lived there before," she said.

Initially she expects that "he's going to rely on me for some support which will put an added burden on me."

Ocon said that she and Maggiore will be flying out together with Bailey this summer to spend a week continuing her apartment hunt as well as looking for housing and employment for him.

Ocon said she intends to help Maggiore get established because he is unfamiliar with the area.

She and Maggiore also plan to take a joint-parenting class.

Maggiore has managerial experience from his work at his parents' Long Beach, Calif. restaurant and plans to use this to secure similar employment in the Cambridge-Boston area, Ocon said.

"He knows the ins and outs of the restaurant business," she said. "He's even looking into taking some classes at a junior college."