custody arrangements
Child-sharing legal plans
Custody arrangements are the terms governing where children live and how parenting responsibilities are divided after parents separate or divorce.
These arrangements specify physical custody—which parent the children reside with—and legal custody, which determines who makes major decisions about education, healthcare, and upbringing.
Courts approve or impose custody arrangements based on the children's best interests, though parents often negotiate them through mediation.
They worked out custody arrangements that gave each parent alternating weeks.
- shared parentingDivided custody arrangement
- parenting timeScheduled custody access
- family lawJurisprudence of households
- childrenYoung human beings
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