State of Illinois In the Circuit Court for the Seventh Judicial Circuit:
Model Joint Parenting Agreement
Not exact matches
[FN29] In type 2 cases (female - initiated violence), fathers should be encouraged to pursue primary custody of their children; [FN30] in type 3 cases (male - controlled interactive violence), both
parents are poor role
models, but «the
parent who can better provide a violence - free environment should be considered as the potential primary caretaker for the child,» [FN31] while in type 4 cases (separation and postdivorce violence), «a range of custody plans, including
joint physical custody, are appropriate.»
The lack of specific definition allows
parents to craft their own
model and call it
joint custody, should they desire.
Next,
joint models examined how
parenting trajectories overlapped with internalizing and externalizing symptom trajectories.
Notwithstanding the Court of Appeal decision in Kaplanis, recent case law suggests that
joint custody, together with a parallel
parenting model, may be a viable option in high conflict cases.