Both parents have equal rights with shared custody.
In the initial proceeding, state law presumes that
both parents have equal rights to the child.
Prior to divorce, both
parents have equal rights to their children.
Both parents have equal rights to their children with most custody hearings occurring in the Probate and Family Court.
Joint custody laws state that
both parents have equal rights to a minor child.
Illinois was one of the first states to abolish gender preferences in custody proceedings, meaning
parents have equal rights to their children.
For that reason, the overwhelming majority of non-custodial parents get some visitation with their children, and a legal presumption exists that
both parents have equal rights to the child.
Council of Europe member states should remove from their laws any difference based on marital status between parents who have acknowledged their child and ensure that
parents have equal rights vis - à - vis their children under their laws and administrative practice, the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination has said.
In Ontario, both
parents have equal rights to access their child.
When joint legal custody is awarded,
both parents have equal rights in the decision making process.
-- Author Unknown Alabama Code Title 30 Marital Domestic Relations § 30-3-151 The following is a list of possible custody grants in Alabama divorce cases: Joint Custody: joint legal and joint physical custody Joint Legal Custody: Both
parents have equal rights and -LSB-...]
(1) «Joint custody» means
both parents have equal rights and responsibilities for major decisions concerning the child, including the child's education, medical and dental care, extracurricular activities, and religious training; however, a judge may designate one parent to have sole authority to make specific, identified decisions while both parents retain equal rights and responsibilities for all other decisions.
Alabama: Both
parents have an equal right to the custody of their children.
Both parents have an equal right and responsibility to make all of the important decisions on issues of health, education, general welfare, and religion affecting their child.
Parents have an equal right to enjoy their fundamental right to parent their child.
When these cases are filed, the only thing the law provides is that
each parent has an equal right to the care, custody, and control of their children.
Under this arrangement, regardless of physical custody,
the parents have an equal right to make determinations about their child's future.
Until the court makes a ruling, both common - law
parents have an equal right to custody.
In cases of joint legal custody,
each parent has equal rights and responsibilities in the decision - making process.
Joint legal custody is when
both parents have an equal right to make major decisions concerning the child, such as decisions about their child's medical care, what school he will attend and religion he will follow.
Joint legal custody is a court order that ensures
each parent has an equal right in making decisions regarding routine medical issues, education, and any other area that affects the welfare of the child.
Both parents have an equal right to custody.
In Ohio,
each parent has equal rights to the child and courts almost always give visitation to the non-custodial parent.
These changes were aimed at ensuring
both parents had equal rights to custody, regardless of gender.
Each parent has an equal right to make a significant contribution in the decision - making process and final decisions.
Parents have an equal right to custody in Florida.
Does a homosexual
parent have equal rights to custody?
Not exact matches
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental
right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the
equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union
has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you
have two sources of care and support; that what children need is
parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
When asked if dads should get the same time off as mothers after the birth of their child he replied: «I don't see why not, a child
has two
parents often and actually to give them both
equal rights is a good thing.
In Canada, with probably the most egalitarian laws, a child can now
have three official
parents (not just two
parents and a step -
parent with
equal rights, but three official
parents).
It is unlikely that Pope Paul VI or any of the bishops in 1968
would have imagined that within a few decades a substantial proportion of Catholic
parents in some Western countries
would be living together outside of marriage or that the Church in those countries
would be defending her
rights against those who claim that homosexual partnerships must be treated as being of
equal value with marriage.
The Baby Boom Show is an educational, nonsectarian, nondiscriminatory consumer show offering an open floor where all participating exhibitors and sponsors
have equal rights and opportunitues to reach new and expectant
parents in the Ottawa region.
If your
parenting partner will
have legal status as a
parent, he will
have equal rights for custody and visitation.
With three or more
parents everyone getting
equal visitation or custody
rights would be extremely difficult and maybe not good for the child.
They may feel that they
have parental
rights that entitle them to «
equal ownership» of their child or children, regardless of how much actual nuts - and - bolts
parenting experience they may
have.
An order for joint custody may specify one home as the primary residence of the child and designate one
parent to
have sole power to make decisions regarding specific matters while both
parents retain
equal rights and responsibilities for other matters.
Parents, on behalf of their children at three largely Hispanic and African - American schools,
had sued the district, arguing that these layoffs created an unstable learning environment, and thereby violated students» constitutional
right to «
equal and adequate educational opportunity.»
Much
has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual
parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional
rights to
equal educational opportunities.»
Public school advocate, engineer and
parent David F. Welch founded Students Matter to defend children's fundamental
right to
have an
equal opportunity to access quality public education.
His
parents, Marian Wright Edelman and Peter Edelman,
have stood up for civil
rights,
equal opportunity, and children's well - being their whole careers.
The Appellate Division held that a school board can not transport private school students on public buses for field trips without some statutory authority and that while
parents have the
right to send their children to private or parochial schools, there is no corresponding
right to
equal state aid once they make that decision.
To do otherwise
would subject the board to constitutional claims, because people
have the
right to
equal protection of the laws from governmental agencies, such as boards of education... A written policy can be invaluable in such situations to guide administrators and to inform
parents as to what the rules are.»
Several Los Angeles
parents had sued the district, saying that failure to use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as they argued a state law known as the Stull Act required, was violating their children's»
rights to
equal educational opportunity.
Notwithstanding the custody arrangement and in addition to all
rights and duties given to
parents pursuant to Section 63-5-30, each
parent has equal access and the same
right to obtain all educational records and medical records of his or her minor children and the
right to participate in the children's school activities and extracurricular activities that are held in public locations unless prohibited by an order of the court or State law.
The Canadian government recently even tried to change the Divorce Act to
have a presumption that 50/50 custody was suitable in most cases, thereby making it easier for (mostly) fathers to
have equal parenting rights.
In Florida each
parent has equal parental
rights in making decisions concerning the raising of the minor children.
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.
In 2008 our legislature enacted S.C. Code § 63-5-30, which begins, «The mother and father are the joint natural guardians of their minor children and are equally charged with the welfare and education of their minor children and the care and management of the estates of their minor children; and the mother and father
have equal power,
rights, and duties, and neither
parent has any
right paramount to the
right of the other concerning the custody of the minor....»
«Shared
Parenting means that a child
has a
right to
equal access and opportunity with both
parents, the
right to be guided and nurtured by both
parents, the
right to
have major decisions made by application of both
parents» wisdom, judgment and experience.
Bill C - 560 failed in Parliament two years ago, but with a new government in power for a year, Ludmer, principal of LudmerLaw, believes the time is
right to lobby politicians to support changes that
would implement a rebuttable presumption of
equal shared
parenting.