A joint custodial arrangement helps to assure that the child or children will have continuing contact and involvement with both parents.
This article will examine recent decisions concerning the relocation of the custodial parent in sole or primary physical custody arrangements as well as the proposed relocation of a parent in cases involving
a joint custodial arrangement, including both joint legal custody and joint physical custody.
(6) Is there any indication that the psychological and emotional needs and development of the child will suffer due to a particular
joint custodial arrangement?
Not exact matches
Many parents will share the
custodial rights in a
joint custody
arrangement, or by an order giving the access parent extra rights.
A «move - away «case arises when a parent that has
joint or sole custody of the child decides to move to a location that is far enough away to disrupt the current
custodial arrangement.
According to research, about half of all children in
joint physical custody see both parents at least weekly, compared to one in 10 children in traditional custody
arrangements (
custodial mother, noncustodial father).
The court stated that this concern with the nature of the parties»
custodial arrangement was not dependent on the terms used by the parties to describe their
arrangement as the terms of their agreement and the divorce judgment indicated that the parties only had
joint legal custody.
For this reason the concept of
joint custody developed in the 1970s and 1980s as an alternative to the traditional single parent
custodial arrangement.
This is true whether she is the primary
custodial parent or if parents share a
joint custody
arrangement.
This did not mean that
joint custody was unavailable in the jurisdiction because such
custodial arrangements were accepted by courts where both parties consented.