Joint Child Custody

Custody of a child is and should be one of the most important aspectswhen it comes To the separation of the parents. Joint child custody iswhere each of the child's parents has Equal custody of said child orchildren.This type of custody is characterized by the responsibility of Boththe mother and the father of the children. Physical and legal matterscan be covered under a joint child custody agreement.The parent with legal custody gets to make all the decisions of achild's life including health-doctor, Education-school, Welfare ofsaid child. Physical custody is who the child will actually be withmost of the time.Both parents can have joint custody in these two areas. One parent mayhave the child during the week for school. The parents may split thetime during the week. This has to be thought through very carefully.You do not want to make it tough for the child while in school.Staying at a parents house during part of the week that is quite aways away from the child's school will make it tough on the that childand can affect the school work being done.Now if the parents have split up and are both still in the same schooldistrict this would not be a problem.How do you about obtaining the joint child custody result? The parentsmay differ on this.The easiest way is to come to an agreement between the two parentsthemselves. This will save each parent a significant amount of moneyin terms of lawyer's fees and court costs.Another alternative is to let a judge or master decide. Depending onthe parent, the judge may rule for joint child custody. He also mayrule that one parent would be better for the child to stay with. Thisis most certainly true in the case of mental and physical abuse to thechild by one of the parents.The state in which you reside needs to be taken into account. Thereare states that are no fault states as is the case in Pennsylvania.What this means is that no matter how many times you spouse hascheated on you, the courts will not take this into consideration whenit comes to determining if joint child custody is warranted.The best thing you can do to prepare yourself and to increase yourchances of joint child custody is to get as much information and someproven strategies that will work in you favor.
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