The shared right to have a child live with one or the other parent at different times of the week or year.
The sharing of the actual physical care and custody of a child by both parents.
A form of custody of minor children in which the parents share the actual physical custody of the child. The ti me spent living with each individual parent is structured between the parties. Joint physical custody does not require that there be an equal sharing of ti me.
A situation wherein the child spends time sleeping in both parents' homes.
When children spend a lot if time with both parents.
Arrangement in which children spend considerable periods of time, perhaps several weeks or months of each year, alternately with each parent.