If you want
a more joint physical custody you can give the parent with less parenting time more time with the child.
Not exact matches
While these side benefits should never be the primary reason to choose
joint physical custody, they're worth considering if you're having trouble looking on the bright...
MORE side of a court - ordered
joint custody arrangement.
However, for parents who share
joint physical custody, it's generally
more common for them to also share
joint legal
custody, as well.
Joint physical custody is rarely a 50/50 time split, but it affords both parents considerable time with the child,
more than if one of them merely had parenting time once a week or so.
This meant that, while not necessarily splitting their children's time equally — that arrangement, known as «
joint physical custody,» is both
more cumbersome and less common — they continued to fully share parental rights and responsibilities.
Below, you will find tips on the key differences among legal
custody,
physical custody, sole
custody,
joint custody, and
more.
In the past, true «
joint physical custody» arrangements were
more common, in which the child lived with each parent roughly half the time.
When parents have
joint custody, they have equal decision making rights, although one parent may have
physical custody of the child significantly
more than the other parent.
If a parent awarded
joint legal
custody and
physical care or sole legal
custody is relocating the residence of the minor child to a location which is one hundred fifty miles or
more from the residence of the minor child at the time that
custody was awarded, the court may consider the relocation a substantial change in circumstances.
It is possible to have both
physical and legal
joint custody of children, though
joint legal
custody is
more common.
Courts can award
joint physical custody — meaning that the toddler lives with both parents in equal time shares — or, the court can award sole
physical custody — also called primary
physical custody, meaning the toddler lives with one parent
more than the other.
In recent years, the label of shared /
joint physical custody has become
more commonly used in describing a parenting arrangement; however, actual 50 - 50 sharing of the child is still NOT the norm or most common parenting plan the court adopts or that parents choose.
«Two other studies similarly found
joint physical custody to be
more beneficial to children and adolescents than sole maternal
custody along multiple dimensions when conflict was low, but these benefits were suppressed by high levels of conflict (Lee, 2002; Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992).»
When calculating child support by North Carolina standards,
joint physical custody means the child spends approximately 123 or
more nights annually with the non-residential parent.
This can also be called «
joint physical custody,» even though one parent has
more parenting time than the other.
The parents may also have court - ordered
joint or shared
physical custody, meaning that each parent spends 30 percent or
more with the child, or greater than 109 overnights a year.
Parents with
Joint physical custody share responsibility for the child's time within a
more equitable schedule.
Depending upon the arrangements,
physical custody may be sole or
joint, but sole
custody with the mother is
more the norm.
It's difficult logistically to divide a child's time exactly 50/50 between households, so even when parents share
joint physical custody, their child might live with one
more often than the other.
Children in a
joint physical custody arrangement suffered from fewer psychosomatic problems than those living mostly or only with one parent but reported
more symptoms than those in non-broken families.
Perhaps one party has a
more demanding job than the other so in this case
joint custody by the
physical definition may not make sense.
In
joint physical custody situations, the child usually spends marginally
more time with one parent, referred to as the «primary custodial parent.»
Fact: Fewer child support awards are ordered in
joint physical custody cases; there is a greater income differential between fathers» households and mothers» households post-divorce in
joint custody situations than in sole
custody situations; and fathers with
joint custody are
more likely to have higher incomes relative to their ex-wives than fathers in situations of maternal
custody.
Even with
joint physical custody, the children usually spend a little
more time with one parent.
Frequent visits and
joint custody schedules led to
more verbal and
physical abuse.
Joint physical custody is rarely a 50/50 time split, but it affords both parents considerable time with the child,
more than if one of them merely had parenting time once a week or so.
We now have
more than 50 studies of
joint physical custody.
Much
more common than true
joint custody arrangements (where both
physical and legal
custody are shared) is «
joint legal
custody,» in which both parents share the right to make long - term decisions about the raising of a child and key aspects of the child's welfare, with
physical custody awarded to one parent.
In the past, true «
joint physical custody» arrangements were
more common, in which the child lived with each parent roughly half the time.
Results showed negative effects for sole
custody: «Single
custody subjects evidenced greater self - hate and perceived
more rejection from their fathers than
joint physical custody subjects.»
[FN181] Nevertheless, the alternative of no access to this type of public benefit in one of their dwellings under a
joint physical custody arrangement makes the lives of children living in poverty even
more tenuous.
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.
Parents with
joint physical custody do not generally have significantly less conflict or
more cooperative relationships than parents with sole
physical custody.
While Courts recognize that a parent can not realistically be confined to one geographic location, the greater the distance between the parents, the
more difficult it can be to effectively exercise a
joint physical custody arrangement.
If there is
joint physical custody but the child is living much
more of the time with one parent than the other, would the parents need to change the child support arrangements to reflect the actual
custody arrangements?