04-09-2020, 04:23 PM
What does joint custody mean?
Joint custody involves a sharing of parental responsibility for the child. Parents who don't live together have joint custody when they share the decision-making responsibilities for, and/or physical control and custody of, their children. Joint custody can exist if the parents are divorced, separated, or no longer cohabiting, or even if they never lived together.
Joint custody has the advantages of assuring the children continuing contact and involvement with both parents. And it alleviates some of the burdens of parenting for each parent.
The term does not refer to the time parents will spend with their children. Often the child will live primarily with one of his/her parents, and the other will have access, or a legal right to spend time with the child. Reasonable access takes place whenever the parents agree to it in. Specified access holds the non-custodial parent to certain days or times in accord with a legal agreement or court order whereas shared custody means the children will divide their time more or less equally between their parents’ homes.
Joint custody involves a sharing of parental responsibility for the child. Parents who don't live together have joint custody when they share the decision-making responsibilities for, and/or physical control and custody of, their children. Joint custody can exist if the parents are divorced, separated, or no longer cohabiting, or even if they never lived together.
Joint custody has the advantages of assuring the children continuing contact and involvement with both parents. And it alleviates some of the burdens of parenting for each parent.
The term does not refer to the time parents will spend with their children. Often the child will live primarily with one of his/her parents, and the other will have access, or a legal right to spend time with the child. Reasonable access takes place whenever the parents agree to it in. Specified access holds the non-custodial parent to certain days or times in accord with a legal agreement or court order whereas shared custody means the children will divide their time more or less equally between their parents’ homes.