Sentences with phrase «terms of their joint custody arrangement»

The ability or lack of ability for the co-parents to agree on the terms of their joint custody arrangement.

Not exact matches

For example, under a joint custody arrangement both parents will be able to make decisions in terms of education, religion and health care.

Not all states automatically grant joint custody requests from parents, particularly if they can not get along well enough to make such an arrangement work, but courts often will do so if you can prove that the custody terms are in the best interests of your child.

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.

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.

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.

A second issue concerns the long - term effectiveness of court mandated joint custody arrangements.

This is an arrangement where the child is «shared» between the two parents, meaning that the child resides with one parent for half of the time and the other parent for the other half and this is often termed joint custody in South Carolina.