Sentences with phrase «joint custody of a child requires»

Definition: Joint custody of a child requires both parents to cooperate in deciding major issues affecting their children, including, but not limited to, major medical decisions, religious training, and education.

Not exact matches

As with most joint physical custody schedules, this one requires that your children have fully functional bedrooms and living space in each of your homes: Maintain separate wardrobes, toys, and favorite electronics at each place to the extent possible.

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

In joint custody situations, the judge could order the sale of the house and require both spouses and children to relocate.

Whether move out of state by parent with joint legal custody and primary physical custody would be sufficient to satisfy standard of proof required for modification of child custody orders depends upon facts.

After considering the jurisprudence with respect to the double - bind question, the Court found that the risk of it resulting in a presumptive disposition may be greater where a joint custody or shared residency arrangement requiring both parents to reside in the same locale is in the best interests of the child.

essay addresses the issue of Court Orders for joint custody that essentially become orders for de facto sole custody to the alienation - pathological parent unless the underlying psychopathology being induced in the child by the alienating parent is effectively resolved (requiring separation of the child during treatment from the source origin of the psychopathology).

A different analysis may be required when parents share joint physical custody of the minor children under an existing order and in fact, and one parent seeks to relocate with the minor children.

While some fathers may take little interest in their children, the main causes include failure of the courts to award joint physical custody, failure to award significant parenting time («visitation»), failure to enforce the parenting time that has been ordered, readiness to curtail contact between fathers and children when estranged wives make any allegation, child support orders that require fathers to work two or three jobs, thus leaving no time for parenting, moveaways, and other factors.

Most parents have joint legal custody of their children, however, that does require that the parents are able to have some communication and the ability to consult and confer with each other regarding the children.

Alabama child custody law, Section 30-3-150 requires that «minor children have frequent and continuing contact with parents who have shown the ability to act in the best interest of their children and encourage parents to share in the rights and responsibilities of rearing their children after the parents have separated or dissolved their marriage [but] joint custody does not necessarily mean equal physical custody.»

Some provisions in joint legal custody laws require a minimum visitation period for the noncustodial parent that can be limited only when there is a threat of physical harm to the child.

If you do not agree on joint child custody or all the terms of the agreement, the judge can require you to participate in court - ordered mediation.

If there is a joint custody arrangement, the school should require the consent of both parents for all major decisions that affect the child.

Some states require that both parents have a minimum amount of time with the child in order for the arrangement to be labeled joint custody.

Wait a minute: back in # 1, they cite: «Acknowledging the long established legal tenet that fit parents act in the best interest of their children...» If neither parent is unfit, because joint custody was put into place, either parent's decisions are equally valid - requiring them to «demonstrate how the modification serves the child?s best interest» in decision making invalidates # 1's assertion that each fit parent acts in the child's best interest.

[FN127] It does neither the child nor the abused parent any good to require that the harmful contact continue, especially the level of interaction expected under joint custody.

(2) No joint custody order will be entered unless the court designates the parent who will make the decisions that require immediate attention concerning the health, safety, and welfare of the child.

The court requires unmarried parents to establish paternity of the child, before it rules on joint guardianship or joint child custody.

The terms of joint child custody are not set in stone by state law, but all state laws require judges to consider the best interests of the child.