When parents live in close proximity to each other, it also helps avoid disrupting their teenager's social life with changes of custody time. (info.legalzoom.com)
Historically, family courts have readily granted one parent more custody time than the other. (johnsonbuhlaw.com)
They not only had to financially support the child, but they also had to pay the other parent's custody time for the next 5 - 10 years, or longer. (lawyer-monthly.com)