Sentences with phrase «about equal parenting time»

Not exact matches

The trend in Florida has been toward equal parenting time and time sharing for parents since about 2014, at least whenever possible.

And while 47 % of parents in two - parent households where both the mother and the father work full time say they and their partner play about an equal role when it comes to taking care of sick children, the same share says the mother does this more than the father.

Parents spend about equal time with two or more kids.

If the parties have shared custody it means that the children are with each parent about an equal amount of time.

The Government will be consulting shortly on how the legislation can be framed to ensure that a meaningful relationship is not about an equal division of time but the quality of time that a child spends with each parent.

With that in mind, Texas child support laws are now very much geared to all parties coming into the process as equals, and trying to talk through agreements about child custody, rights of visitation, financial support for the child, and also agreements about how time should be shared between the parties, and also parenting plans to ensure that both sets of parents are singing from the same hymn sheet in terms of exactly HOW they would like their children to be raised.

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....

I remember Kris Titus, who was the president of the Equal Parenting Council across Canada, an umbrella organization for 40 - some groups, telling me about when she and her ex, who were living in close communities, went to the judge the first time around to try to work out this kind of arrangement of approximately equal shared parenEqual Parenting Council across Canada, an umbrella organization for 40 - some groups, telling me about when she and her ex, who were living in close communities, went to the judge the first time around to try to work out this kind of arrangement of approximately equal shared pParenting Council across Canada, an umbrella organization for 40 - some groups, telling me about when she and her ex, who were living in close communities, went to the judge the first time around to try to work out this kind of arrangement of approximately equal shared parenequal shared parentingparenting.

For example, if a father were a long - haul trucker, he might say he has the presumption of equal shared parenting but, for him, it only works to have the kids about 30 % of the time and the mother to have them 70 % of the time.

Nothing trumps children having both parents.165 When parents are unwed, nothing trumps the children having about equal time with their mom and dad.