Is there a way to make the handle of the purse move with his hips? When I move the hips, his handle stays behind.

Off the top of my head - maybe the easiest thing to do would be to create a new handle bone that is a child of the hips vertical 1 - and reassign the current handle cps to this new bone - or else move the current handle bone to be a child of the hips vertical.

this is the first I've seen of the purse - so I am not aware of how this impacts any other animation already done

EDIT: probably better to make new handle bone a child of Torso vertical - and I would also make torso vertical a child of hips vertical (just a preference of mine to have torso rotate when hips rotate)

here's sample of what I did - created new handle bone, reassigned cps, made new bone child of torso vertical 1, made torso vertical 1 child of hips vertical 1

EDIT - made new handle bone origin different so that can also rotate handle

Works great Nancy. Thanks! Holmes can I replace the original with it? I don't think I've seen the purse walking in any scenes up to now.

Yes. That should be OK. I think the only scene so far with the purse is David's Witch/Krewl scene, and the purse doesn't walk in that scene.

OK. Sure we can always get the original back anyway if there are any problems.