Sentences with phrase «with sole custody arrangements»

Gould reports that adult children of divorced parents report less satisfaction with sole custody arrangements than any other arrangement, and an assortment of behavior problems are associated with loss of contact with one parent.

Further, in his book «The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions,» Robert Galatzer - Levy reports that parents report less satisfaction with sole custody arrangements.

Not exact matches

An additional 9 % are fathers with sole custody, and the remaining 4 % is split custody with multiple - child families and different arrangements for each child.

Yet preschool children in sole custody arrangements are the group most at risk of losing contact with their non-custodial parents.

In 2000, a report by Justice Canada found that mothers were awarded sole custody in around 79 per cent of court - ordered custody arrangements, compared with just seven per cent of fathers.

You may wonder who will get sole custody of your child or if your ex-spouse will cooperate with the arrangement.

While some courts still award sole custody to mom or to dad, many courts take a broader look at parenting and work out a custody / visitation arrangement that maximizes the kids» time with each parent.

A Justice Canada report from 2000 found that mothers were awarded sole custody in around 79 per cent of court - ordered custody arrangements, compared with just seven per cent of fathers.

If a parent with sole custody prevents the non-custodial parent from visitation, the custody arrangements may be reevaluated.

The first is a sole custody arrangement in which the child lives with the parent who has the responsibility for providing daily childcare and making decisions about the child's religion, schooling, and medical care.

In comparison to children in sole custody arrangements, children in joint custody arrangements who spend at least 35 percent of their time with each of their parents enjoy the following benefits:

The court may order sole legal custody with shared physical custody, joint legal custody with sole physical custody or make other custody arrangements.

The court may award one of three types of custody arrangements: joint legal custody to both parents, where one parent is responsible for residential custody; joint physical custody, where both parents provide homes for the child; or sole custody to one parent with visitation, also called «parenting time,» allowed to the non-custodial parent.

Depending upon the arrangements, physical custody may be sole or joint, but sole custody with the mother is more the norm.

In contrast, a sole custody arrangement with visitation requires minimal ex-spouse contact, and allows you both greater freedoms to move forward in your lives.

The parenting plan must identify both parents, identify the child or children subject to the plan, state whether both parents agree to the plan, identify a preference for sole custody or joint custody with respect to decision - making authority concerning various aspects of the child's life, and describe preferred visitation arrangements.

Sole custody is an arrangement in which one parent has sole decision - making authority and is the parent with whom the child lives.

Mother had sole custody and father had specific non-overnight access two afternoons a week and alternate Sundays — Both mother and father were good parents — Mother had shown flexibility with respect to access arrangements, however father had acted in immature and inflexible manner

In 2000, a report by Justice Canada found that mothers were awarded sole custody in around 79 per cent of court - ordered custody arrangements, compared with just seven per cent of fathers.

You have a sole custody arrangement if your child spends more than 60 percent of the time with one of you over the course of a year.

Further, as respecting possible modification, because of past issues of the defendant failing to comply with orders of the court; providing token compliance with orders of the court while ignoring the spirit and intent of the orders (including the orders dated December 1, 2010); the defendant's lengthy pattern of contemptuous conduct; the expenses and financial waste caused by the defendant; the substantial financial drain on the resources of the plaintiff and the guardian ad litem caused by the defendant; the pattern of parental alienation; prior false reports of abuse and / or neglect to governmental entities; and the need for repose on the part of the minor child, it is anticipated that in addition to satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, no modification motion is permitted to be filed by defendant regarding the sole physical and / or sole legal custody arrangements, except in the case of the plaintiff's total and permanent disability as determined by the Social Security Administration, unless the following conditions are satisfied...» Eisenlohr v. Eisenlohr, 2011 WL 1566201 at * 4 (Conn.Super.).

Shared custody agreements tend to be more complicated than sole custody arrangements because the amount of time that the child spends with each parent can affect child support awards as well as the child's legal residence for school.

In a sole custody arrangement, the child spends most of his or her time with one parent, and less than two nights per week with the other parent, with some exceptions for vacations and holidays.

If a Connecticut family court does not order joint custody, it may order alternative custody arrangements, such as awarding sole physical custody to one parent with appropriate visitation for the child with the non-custodial parent.

A sole physical custody arrangement has the child living primarily with one parent and visiting the other parent.

If parties have a joint custody arrangement, the parent seeking modification of custody must show how both parents are unable to cooperate with one another and agree on the best interests of the child; thus, sole custody would be a more appropriate arrangement.

To say that joint custody «is associated with» reduced parent conflict is to ignore that more amicable parents would be more likely to voluntarily choose this arrangement (whereas the dataset of sole custody homes would include, among others, most of the families with severe abuse issues.)

In 2000, a report by Justice Canada found that mothers were awarded sole custody in around 79 percent of court - ordered custody arrangements, compared with just seven percent of fathers.

Approximately one third of the children were in joint physical custody arrangements averaging 12 days per month with the less - seen parent, with the others in either mother or father sole physical custody averaging 4 days a month with the less - seen parent.

However, the study did find that more frequent contact between parents in either joint or sole custody arrangements was «associated with more emotional and behavioral problems in the children.»

Shared physical custody means a child lives part of the time with each parent, having more frequent and substantial contact with each parent than under a sole custody arrangement, in which one parent has primary physical custody and the other has occasional visitation.

The data regarding joint custody shows that most arrangements called joint custody are actually very similar to sole custody with access arrangements.

Joint custody can also refer to joint physical custody, in which the child spends time with each parent, either on a roughly even basis or in blocks of time that are, in effect, no greater than visitation under a sole custody arrangement.

In practice, it frequently devolves post-order and over time into a time - share arrangement that differs little from traditional sole custody with visitation (but differs a lot in the amount of the child support order.)