Sentences with phrase «as joint custody situations»

Not exact matches

Consequently, we believe that joint custody is, as both parties have asserted, untenable in this situation.

Another potentially problematic situation is when a couple marries after the birth of a child, as in one New York case when the court denied a nonbiological, married but not adoptive mother's petition for joint custody.

Increasingly, courts are more inclined to view joint custody as the best situation for the child.

We have exempted from the business associate requirement certain situations in which the law has created joint uses or custody over health information, such as when law requires another government agency to determine the eligibility for enrollment in a covered health plan.

Most joint custody situations have one parent designated as the primary residential parent whose home is the children's primary address.

In most joint custody situations, one parent is designated as the primary residential parent.

Wallerstein: I can only conclude that joint custody as a legal presumption for all children is a misguided policy... children, especially girls, do very poorly in court ordered joint custody situations.

In joint physical custody situations, the child usually spends marginally more time with one parent, referred to as the «primary custodial parent.»

Split custody, also referred to as joint custody or shared custody, is a legal term used to describe a situation in which multiple individuals have legal rights to a child.

From another study frequently touted by the fathers» rights advocates as supporting joint custody: «The author cautions courts... against making joint custody mandatory, naming several situations in which such a blanket decision would be deleterious.

In what they speciously characterize as Extreme Situations, THE MALE SUPREMACISTS CLAIM: In situations with high levels of conflict, mental illness, or domestic violence, joint physical custody is no better (and no worse) than solSituations, THE MALE SUPREMACISTS CLAIM: In situations with high levels of conflict, mental illness, or domestic violence, joint physical custody is no better (and no worse) than solsituations with high levels of conflict, mental illness, or domestic violence, joint physical custody is no better (and no worse) than sole custody.

The statute gives the court reason to be cautious in entering a joint custody order in these situations by requiring the judge to consider prior parenting history, but it is unclear whether prior history, listed as a factor to be considered in rebutting the presumption, will gain the distinction warranted in these situations.

However, the research reviewed here does not support claims by critics of joint custody that joint - custody children are likely to be exposed to more conflict or to be at greater risk of adjustment problems due to having to adjust to two households or feeling «torn» between parents... It is important to recognize that the results clearly do not support joint custody as preferable to, or even equal to, sole custody in all situations.

As the terms imply, in joint custody situations, parents share responsibilities for the child.