Sentences with phrase «decisions affecting a child»

There is an emphasis throughout Supporting Families on supporting shared parenting, and it makes clear that from pregnancy onwards, all professionals should consider the needs and perspective of both parents — and should think about how better to engage fathers in all aspects of their child's development and decisions affecting their child.

• It would in general give the father no legal right to be consulted or agree to major decisions affecting the child.

«This is an opportunity for transition and we want to be able to return control to parents to make decisions affecting their children's education.»

Parents are generally kept in the dark about how the most important decisions affecting their children's education are made.

Arizona child custody laws address both a parenting time schedule and an order regarding how major decisions affecting the child are made.

Parents sharing joint legal custody (now referred to as joint legal decision making) must reach agreements regarding major life decisions affecting their children.

1 BvR 1914/17), the need in all decisions affecting a child's welfare to establish the child's current needs and the consequences, depending on the envisaged decision.

the best interests of the child are the «only,» the «paramount» or the «primary» consideration in all decisions affecting children, depending on the legislation at hand; and,

That is because not all parents have parental responsibility — the legal right to make important decisions affecting their child, including choices about their education and the health.

«Joint custody» means both parents make all the key decisions affecting the child, and the child lives with both parents, although not necessarily for an equal period of time.

Where there is sole custody, only one parent has custody and they have control of any and all major decisions affecting the child.

It is assumed that the two parents will reach an agreement on major decisions affecting their child.

Family mediation is a voluntary process that allows parents to resolve their disputes over decisions affecting their children.

Georgia courts decide two aspects of child custody: «legal custody,» or which parent has the responsibility to make decisions affecting a child's education, health, religion, and extracurricular activities, and «physical custody,» meaning where a child lives and his or her visitation schedule with each parent.

Legal custody refers to a parent's responsibility to make decisions affecting a child's physical, educational, and spiritual well - being.

If the parties can work together to make decisions affecting the children, then joint custody (joint decision making) makes sense.

That means the parent has the right to participate in decisions affecting the child, regardless of how much time the child spends with the non-custodial parent.

While custody refers to the right to make decisions affecting your child's wellbeing, it does not relate to how much time you spend with your child.

This issue should not be confused with the issue of Shared Parental Responsibility (legal custody), which is awarded to both parents in the vast majority of cases and which gives each parent the same right to participate in making important decisions affecting their children in areas such as education, medical care, religious upbringing, etc..

sole legal custody: A court order that says one parent has the legal right to make major decisions affecting the child, like health care, education, and religion.

Depending on the circumstances of the case, each party is entitled to significant periods of parenting time with their children and input into major decisions affecting the children, including education, religion and non-emergency medical procedures.

Joint legal custody does not mean that the parents have joint physical custody; it only means that both parents share the right to make decisions affecting the child's education, health, and welfare.

Sole legal custody means that only one parent has the legal right and responsibility to make decisions affecting her child's health, education and welfare.

This requires regular communication between the parents — and if one parent wants to make an important decision — that parent should consult the other parent before important decisions affecting the child are made.

Adoptive parents have the right to request a fair hearing any time the Cabinet for Families and Children (CFC), Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) makes a decision affecting their child's adoption assistance benefits.

Adoptive parents can request a fair hearing whenever a Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) decision affects their child's adoption assistance benefits.

Adoptive parents have the right to request a fair hearing whenever they wish to appeal a Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) decision affecting their child's adoption assistance benefits.

Adoptive families may request an administrative fair hearing whenever there is a disagreement with an agency decision affecting their child's adoption assistance benefits, adverse action to the child's current assistance, or a request made by the family is denied.

The adoptive family can request a fair hearing whenever a Department of Public Welfare (DPW), county Children and Youth Agency decision affects their child's adoption assistance benefits.

For example, in some families grandparents, aunts or uncles may be centrally involved in decisions affecting children.

Legal custody is the right to make major decisions affecting the child, including medical, religious, and educational decisions.

A divorced parent who is out of the state or country on business may delegate to a stepparent the absent parent's decision making authority for making joint, major decisions affecting the child's health, education or general welfare, with the ex-spouse.

A parent who has full or sole legal custody has control of all major decisions affecting the child's life.

Joint legal custody is when both parents share in making major decisions affecting their child's life, including medical care, education and religious training.

First, although it is commonly understood that a divorced parenting relationship which is low in conflic is a primary condition that describes a divorce that is good for children, we also know that even when there is no conflict, if Mom and Dad do not communicate about the children, are not at least cordial and do not cooperate with each other around parenting, and do not make decisions affecting children together, resolving ifferences respectfully in order to do so, children are still at risk for difficulties.

In most cases a parenting plan (when the children are with each parent and how decisions affecting the children are to be made) is established by agreement of the parents (who know each other and children best).

Joint legal custody applies to shared authority in making major decisions affecting your children's health, schooling, and well being.

A proposed joint physical care parenting plan 20 shall address how the parents will make decisions affecting the child, how the parents will 21 provide a home for the child, how the child's time will be divided between the parents and 22 how each parent will facilitate the child's time with the other parent, arrangements in 23 addition to court ordered child support for the child's expenses, how the parents will resolve 24 major changes or disagreements affecting the child including changes that arise due to the 25 child's age and developmental needs, and any other issues the court may require.

Parenting coordination is designed to help divorced or unmarried parents work cooperatively to make decision affecting their children.

This information often proves to be invaluable — sometimes reassuring, and sometimes surprising — for the parents, as they consider decisions affecting their children's lives.

Where there is sole custody, only one parent has custody and they have control of any and all major decisions affecting the child.

Family mediation is a voluntary process that allows parents to resolve their disputes over decisions affecting their children.

Guardians are responsible for making all significant decisions affecting the child and have a right to sufficient time with the child.

(F) the capacity of the parents to communicate and reach shared decisions affecting the child's welfare;

It means having the legal right to make and participate in any material decisions affecting the children.

Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing that key decisions affecting your children and finances are made by you, not a lawyer or the court.

Not exact matches

If you have other children, you need to think about how your decision to help one child will affect the rest of the family, said Mitchell Kraus, financial advisor and owner at Capital Intelligence Associates in Santa Monica, California.

The morale of workers and the emotional stability of children have been found to be enhanced by job situations and homes, respectively, in which they participated in some of the decisions affecting them.

Your relationship decisions affect your families, your neighbors, your children and often your children's children.

I believe that divorce is a private decision but it has implications that may eventually spiral out of control to become a social problem because let's face it - divorce affects not only the spouses but the children, family and friends.