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Child Custody Explained
Legal Custody
Legal and physical custody can be joint or sole
Physical Custody
Legal custody is defined as the parent or guardian who is responsible for making important decisions for your children. Important decisions may include:
- Where the child lives
- School or childcare
- Religious activities
- Psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health or therapy needs
- Doctor, dentist, orthodontist, medical care (except in medic
Legal custody is defined as the parent or guardian who is responsible for making important decisions for your children. Important decisions may include:
- Where the child lives
- School or childcare
- Religious activities
- Psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health or therapy needs
- Doctor, dentist, orthodontist, medical care (except in medical emergency situations)
- Sports, summer camps, child vacations or extracurricular activities
- Travel
The type of custody parents have determines who will have final authority to make major decisions.
Physical Custody
Legal and physical custody can be joint or sole
Physical Custody
Primary physical custody is a term that is often used in child custody orders to denote the parent with whom a child spends or lives the majority of the time with. It is a term that is often used in cases where one parent has more time with his/her child than the other.
Legal and physical custody can be joint or sole
Legal and physical custody can be joint or sole
Legal and physical custody can be joint or sole
Joint legal custody, both parents share the rights and responsibilities for making important legal decisions about the children.
Wherein, Sole legal custody is awarded means the parent or guardian awarded sole legal custody is responsible in making all decisions pertaining to the children's welfare.
Joint physical custody (also called
Joint legal custody, both parents share the rights and responsibilities for making important legal decisions about the children.
Wherein, Sole legal custody is awarded means the parent or guardian awarded sole legal custody is responsible in making all decisions pertaining to the children's welfare.
Joint physical custody (also called shared physical custody, shared residential custody, shared parenting time, etc.) means that your child spends substantial time living with both parents, and both have equal responsibility to maintain and care for their children's best interest.
Joint physical custody does not mean that parents have equal time with the child. Rather, both parents have substantial and frequent time.
Sole physical custody (also called Primary physical custody) means that your child lives with one parent, called the custodial parent. In almost all cases, the other parent who is called the non custodial or parent is awarded visitation with the child.