Sentences with phrase «type of parenting agreement»

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While there was much debate on the type of choices that should be available to parents, there was some agreement on the need for options.

-- Enabling parenting coordination by agreement or court order; — Amending the Commercial Arbitration Act to address family arbitrations; — integrating reproductive technologies into determining a child's legal parents; — Replacing the terms «custody» and «access» with «guardianship» and «parenting time»; — Defining «guardianship» through a list of «parental responsibilities» that can be allocated to allow for more customized parenting arrangements; — Extending the legislative property division regime to common - law spouses who have lived together for two years in a marriage - like relationship or who are in marriage - like relationship of some permanence and have children together; — Excluding certain types of property (e.g. pre-relationship property, gifts, and inheritances) from the pool of family property to be divided 50 - 50; and — Providing that debts are subject to equal division.

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 post-judgment motion to modify can be filed to request a modification of almost any type of settlement agreement, parenting plan, premarital agreement, or support award.

Most states require that a parenting plan or some type of written custody agreement be drafted in all divorce cases involving minor children.

Other states may require parents to sign an agreement promising to adhere to certain types of behavior, such as not arguing in front of the child.

All states encourage parents to reach their own parenting agreements about what type of custody each parent will have and when the child will visit each parent.

Beyond the types of criminal situations touched on above, a sole custody agreement may also be the only viable option if one parent is mentally ill, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to serve as a caretaker.

In written agreements, such as premarital agreements, postmarital agreements and other types of spousal agreements, parents can agree to the terms of their choosing, but courts may not uphold custody terms that negatively affect a child's best interests.

Both types of custody can either be shared or held solely by one parent, and the agreement will specify how parenting time will be divided.

An adoption plan may be formalized in a written agreement, but it is flexible and can be adjusted to meet a birth parent's needs and changing preferences, such as choosing the adoptive family, the degree of openness in the arrangement, and the type of postadoption contact desired.

When people speak of being legally separated in New Jersey, they may be referring to the fact that they have entered into a written separation agreement governing custody and a parenting plan and support (and maybe even division of property and debt); or where, instead of having the marriage dissolved, the spouses filed for separate maintenance (a type of support proceeding in New Jersey that results in the entry of a support order but not dissolution of the marriage) or for divorce a mensa et thoro (divorce from bed and board) that allows the parties to live separately while still remaining married (which some spouses wish to do for religious reasons or, where the insurance plan allows it, to continue with health coverage through the other spouse).

Courts in some states may default to this type of system when parents can't reach a parenting plan by consent as part of their divorce, but you can design the same arrangement if you're negotiating custody as part of a settlement agreement.

The Agreement indicates the type and frequency of contact between the birth parent (s) and adoptive family.

The Agreement specifies the type, amount, and time of post-adoption contact including the provision of pictures and letters to the birth parent (s) and face - to - face visitation (if wanted) between the birth parent (s) and adoptive family.

Family Connections helps the birth parents to negotiate the level and type of post-adoption contact they wish and then has an attorney draw up the legal document (Post Adoption Contact Agreement).

While no two child visitation agreements are exactly alike, there are some general types of arrangements that work for a majority of parents.

Regardless of the type of process being used, a parenting agreement can effectively be made when the parents have flexibility in the details and focus on the needs of the child.

By moving out before establishing an agreement of this type, you can unintentionally impair your parenting and property rights.

The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations between BIQ - SF scores of parents and teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).

A written agreement which describes the type of custody arrangement between the parents, how decisions will be made regarding the lives of their children, as well as a detailed schedule of how they will share time with their children, weekdays, weekends, holidays and vacations.