There are two aspects to joint custody: 1) Joint legal custody means that the parties share the rights and responsibilities for making decisions concerning the significant aspects of a child's life, including educational, medical and religious issues. 2) Joint physical custody means that the child lives part of the time with each parent. The nature and extent of sharing of time may vary significantly. It is not unusual for parents to have joint legal custody while one parent has sole or primary physical custody and the other has substantial time with a child.
When both parents share custody of a child after a divorce. There are two kinds of custody: legal custody and physical custody. Either or both may be joint.
When parents who do not live together arrange to share in the upbringing of a child.
After divorce, custody of a child is shared by both parents. This may include either or both legal custody and physical custody.
A mother and father can continue to share responsibility for making major decisions which affect their children, regardless of which parent the children actually live with on the day-to-day basis. Such arrangements require a commitment on the part of both former spouses to co-operate for the benefit of the children. Joint custody does not eliminate the obligation of both parents to provide financial support for the children.
Parents share the responsibility to make major decisions for their child (see custody). Joint custody does not mean that the child spends equal time with each parent. Both parents have to agree for joint custody to be ordered. See parenting time.
This is one of the two types of custody. Contrary to popular belief, "joint custody" does not mean that the child spends an equal amount of time with each parent. What joint custody means is that both parents have a say in major decisions affecting the child. "Major" decisions would include things like education, religious upbringing and health care issues. "Major" decisions would not include little things like whether the child wears Nikes or Reeboks. When parents have joint custody there is an agreement, often called a "joint parenting agreement," entered by the judge. This is an agreement which provides, among other things, that in the event of a dispute between the parents as to a major issue affecting the child the parents will go to mediation to try to work out the problem before getting a court involved. See also " mediation" and " sole custody."
Each parent shares legal custody of their children.
When both parents have legal and physical custody of a child.
a type of child custody in which both parents have legal custody, physical custody, or both.
An order of the family division which provides: 1. Parents will share in major decisions affecting their children (joint legal custody); or 2. Children will live with one parent part of the time and the other parent part of the time (joint physical custody).
A child custody decision in which both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody. This is not common and many professionals have taken to referring to "joint legal custody but sole maternal physical custody" as "joint custody".
The children live with the residential custodian and visit with the non-residential parent. Both parents have an equal say in major decisions affecting the children can only be made with notice and consent. See Sole Custody Return to List
means that both parent have equal rights to a child following a divorce
A child custody decision which means that both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody of the same child.
Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is awarded to both parties. Many states recognize two forms of joint custody: joint physical custody, and joint legal custody. In joint physical custody, which is also known as joint physical care, actual lodging and care of the child is shared according to a court-ordered custody schedule.
