Sentences with phrase «from sole custody arrangements»

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Nonetheless, in this case the court made some complex mathematical adjustments to support; this included an adjustment to account for the fact that, before the parties started their shared parenting arrangement, the mother had sole custody of the child and was legally entitled to receive appropriate child support from the father for that period.

The two primary types of legal custody, which is determined either by agreement between parents or by order of a judge, are joint legal custody, which is an arrangement where both parents share the rights to make the major decisions for their child, and sole legal custody, which is when one parent can make these decisions without input from the other parent.

A Justice Canada report from 2000 found that mothers were awarded sole custody in around 79 per cent of court - ordered custody arrangements, compared with just seven per cent of fathers.

If a parent with sole custody prevents the non-custodial parent from visitation, the custody arrangements may be reevaluated.

Because sole custody typically involves fewer transitions from one house to another, children may also benefit from the stability provided by these arrangements.

In practice, it frequently devolves post-order and over time into a time - share arrangement that differs little from traditional sole custody with visitation (but differs a lot in the amount of the child support order.)