Sentences with phrase «also award joint custody»

The court may also award joint custody if one party requests joint custody and the court finds it to be in the best interests of the child.

Not exact matches

A family court's award of joint custody will determine where the child will physically live and when, and the court will also make a determination regarding how major decisions regarding his health, education, and religious needs will be made.

Washington state custody laws also allow the courts to consider awarding joint physical custody.

The court may award either joint or sole custody in a case, based upon the best interest of the child, and may also award visitation rights to a party.

Alaska law also creates a «rebuttable presumption» (a legal assumption that has to be overcome with credible evidence to the contrary) that if an abusive parent has a history of committing domestic violence against the other parent, a child, or even a domestic living partner, the abusive parent must not be awarded sole legal custody, sole physical custody, joint legal custody, or joint physical custody.

Courts can award joint physical custody — meaning that the toddler lives with both parents in equal time shares — or, the court can award sole physical custody — also called primary physical custody, meaning the toddler lives with one parent more than the other.

The court may also award joint legal and physical conservatorship, which permits each parent to share physical custody of the child and have equal say in the child's upbringing.

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.

The court may award one of three types of custody arrangements: joint legal custody to both parents, where one parent is responsible for residential custody; joint physical custody, where both parents provide homes for the child; or sole custody to one parent with visitation, also called «parenting time,» allowed to the non-custodial parent.

Courts also prefer to award joint legal custody so both parents have an active role in their child's life.

The court may also award joint legal custody, meaning that the parents must agree on decisions regarding the child, or that each parent is responsible for certain decisions.

Legal custody may also be awarded as either sole custody or joint custody.

A family court's award of joint custody will determine where the child will physically live and when, and the court will also make a determination regarding how major decisions regarding his health, education, and religious needs will be made.

Also of note, a 2005 study by Margaret Brinig on the effects of presumptive joint custody laws found as follows:»... [S] eparation after the custody statute took effect, holding other things constant, was statistically significantly related to a decrease in the absolute dollars of child support awards, with a difference of about $ 80 a month.

The court may also award joint or shared custody, where the child lives and spends time with both parents and the parents are responsible for agreeing on major decisions for the child.