Sentences with phrase «equal shared parenting arrangements»

Not exact matches

Shared parenting refers to a joint custody arrangement where both parents share approximately equal parenting time.

In true «joint custody» arrangements, parents share equal «legal custody» and «physical custody» rights.

Says Wasser: «If you are hoping to eventually get to an equal time share arrangement but have not historically spent as much time parenting, gradual increases are recommended.»

Our custody and parenting arrangement lawyers led by Lorne N. MacLean, QC, have noticed how custody and parenting arrangements have progressed over time moving from the one primary parent theory in the 1970's to joint custody in the 1980's and 1990's but not necessarily equal time to the now more common 50/50 shared parenting time regimes.

Physical custody, which means where children reside, may be an equal and shared physical custody arrangement where a child's time is evenly split between two homes, or an arrangement where the child resides with the primary custodial parent and the visitation schedule allows for parenting time with the non-custodial parent.

In some cases, a shared parenting arrangement gives both parents an equal amount of time with their kids.

There are a variety of ways to share parenting time, but the guidelines calculate support differently if the parents share equal time (meaning, the child lives with each parent 50 % of the time), close to equal time (where the child stays with the non-custodial parent between 143 and 183 nights a year) or have a split custody arrangement (where the parents divide the kids between them — mom takes the older child while dad has the younger child, for example).

When parents can not agree on parenting arrangements judges are now commonly ordering shared equal child parenting arrangements.

Under a shared custody arrangement, the child does not necessarily spend an equal amount of time with each parent.

When both parents share equal managing and possessory conservatorship the arrangement is referred to as joint conservatorship.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

In joint legal custody arrangements, parents share equally in decision - making responsibility for a child but may not necessarily spend equal amounts of time with them.

In a «shared parenting» arrangement, the parties share legal custody of the minor child (ren); however, «shared parenting» arrangements do not always result in the parents having equal parenting time with the minor child (ren).

However, this will not necessarily result in an arrangement where both parents share equal time with their child 50 - 50.

A shared physical custody arrangement is rarely exactly 50/50, with the child living an equal amount of time with each parent.

In simplest of terms, joint physical custody is an arrangement in which both parents share equal rights in terms of time and contact with their children.

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.

Mr. Speaker, I am quite honoured to be introducing a private member's bill today which would direct the courts in regard to divorce to make equal shared parenting the presumptive arrangement in the best interests of the child, except in proven cases of abuse or neglect.

Mr. Speaker, I am quite honoured in these few moments to be introducing a private member's bill that would direct the courts in regard to divorce to make equal shared parenting the presumptive arrangement in the best interest of the child, except in proven cases of abuse or neglect.

Bill C - 560 would amend the Divorce Act to direct the courts to make equal shared parenting the presumptive arrangement for children following the divorce of their parents, except in proven cases of abuse or neglect.

The amendments in Bill C - 560 would direct the courts in regard to divorce to make equal shared parenting, and I will talk later of the range being 35 % to 50 % roughly, but making it the presumptive arrangement in the best interests of the child, except in proven cases of abuse or neglect.

A physical custody arrangement where parents share equal parenting time will be ordered by a Kansas judge if parents are in agreement with that arrangement.

Between 1986 and 2008, equal shared custody arrangements increased from 5 % to 27 % of post-divorce parenting arrangements.

If parents share substantially equal physical custody arrangements, the relocating parent can only relocate temporarily if the other parent agrees in writing.