Sentences with phrase «custody spends more time with the child»

For example, a parent awarded primary physical custody spends more time with the child than a parent awarded visitation time.

Not exact matches

Physical custody often goes to the parent who spends more time with the children, while the parent without physical custody is awarded visitation per a regular schedule.

Child custody is such a crucial area of family law because it involves not only protecting your parental rights, but doing what is best for the child — even if that means letting him or her spend more time with the other paChild custody is such a crucial area of family law because it involves not only protecting your parental rights, but doing what is best for the child — even if that means letting him or her spend more time with the other pachild — even if that means letting him or her spend more time with the other parent.

Child support and custody are separate issues, so a parent's child support amount may not decrease if he spends more time with the child unless the support order itself is chaChild support and custody are separate issues, so a parent's child support amount may not decrease if he spends more time with the child unless the support order itself is chachild support amount may not decrease if he spends more time with the child unless the support order itself is chachild unless the support order itself is changed.

Joint custody does not even result in the father spending any more time with his children.»

This is a tough one for the joint custody propagandists, because the research findings indicate that children do not need to spend more time with their fathers in order to maintain their levels of attachment with them.

Depending on where you live, you could go to the wall fighting for full custody as part of your divorce, only to realize that what you've won is legal custody and your children will spend half or more of their time with your soon - to - be ex.

Fathers who share physical custody tend to spend much more time with their children, and mothers (and fathers) need periods of relief from the demands of single parenting.

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

It can mean different things in different states, but more often than not, it refers to legal custody, which has no bearing on how much time your child spends with you.

Even with joint physical custody, the children usually spend a little more time with one parent.

Fairfax, VA (Law Firm Newswire) December 22, 2015 — Noncustodial parents may soon be able to spend more time with their children in light of recent consideration, on the part of almost two dozen states, of a reform of child custody law that would involve shared custody of children following divorce or separation.

When you walk into your attorney's office armed with a draft parenting plan, you will spend a lot less time (and money) creating your plan and spend your money on what's more important — the implementation of your plan and child custody strategy.

You have a sole custody arrangement if your child spends more than 60 percent of the time with one of you over the course of a year.

The laws generally award primary custody to the parent who spent more time at home with the children and less time working, even if the difference was miniscule.

Shared custody agreements tend to be more complicated than sole custody arrangements because the amount of time that the child spends with each parent can affect child support awards as well as the child's legal residence for school.

At the OurFamilyWizard ® website, we are dedicated to providing you with the best tools and resources that you need to organize your child custody agreement and parenting plan and to reduce conflict between you and your co-parent, leaving you with more time to spend with your children.

'' [M] aternal custody arrangements appear to be more stable than other arrangements: children who live with their mother after divorce are more likely to remain in this arrangement during the first three to four years after separation, while over half of the children who start out by spending time in each parent's household or who start out living with their father make at least one change (Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992)...»

However, the above study used a ridiculously tiny sample of 14 children who reported spending more time with their fathers in joint custody arrangements.

Joint custody children reported spending more time with their fathers in childcentered activities, activities which were considered pleasurable and important to children.»

I read this as «the children who were in joint legal and joint physical custody (no difference) got along better with and spent more time with their fathers.

The application of the Child Support Guideline does not extend to shared physical custody arrangements in which the child spends forty or more percent of the time with each paChild Support Guideline does not extend to shared physical custody arrangements in which the child spends forty or more percent of the time with each pachild spends forty or more percent of the time with each parent.

Is it that difficult to ascertain who was a child's historical primary caregiver, who is the more competent parent, where the child would be happier spending the bulk of time, whether Dad should have the additional overnight a week he wants, whether Mom really needs to relocate for her job, or — if the recommendation probably is going to be some version of «joint custody» anyway — whether the parents» schedules and the child's life work better on the 5 -5-3-3 plan or with a rotating every other week schedule?

Joint - custody children showed better adjustment in parental relations and spent significant amounts of time with the father, allowing more opportunity for authoritative parenting.

This can be an opportunity for the parent without primary physical custody to spend more time with their child.