Sentences with phrase «joint physical custody requires»

Joint physical custody requires proof of adequate income as well.

Joint physical custody requires that each parent is allowed «significant periods of physical custody.»

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.

Joint custody does not necessarily require joint physical Joint custody does not necessarily require joint physical joint physical care.

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.

Absent a joint custody agreement by the parents that includes an unequal physical custody arrangement, a judge is now required to order joint custody with an equal amount of parenting time, regardless of where the parent lives, unless one parent is ruled to be unfit.

The court may also award joint physical custody, meaning that the child lives with both parents, or joint legal custody, requiring the parents to agree on decisions for the child.

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.

A history of perpetrating abuse or violence often disqualifies a parent from receiving sole physical or joint custody, and might even require that visitation be supervised by a third party.

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.

When parents have joint physical custody, the court will generally require them to formulate a parenting plan.

This requires a trial, and a judge will weigh several stringent factors before ordering joint physical custody over the wishes of one parent.