Child Custody in Divorce cases

Child Custody

For all those parents who are going through divorce, child custody is the biggest issue in front of them and for that the divorce case gets dragged into litigation. Parents fail to realize that the longer the child custody case gets dragged in litigation; the more effects of the whole process is going to have an impact on the child. The only motto of the court is to make sure that post divorce, the child have a secure future and a better upbringing. The court tries to make sure that whenever possible both of the parents are involved in the upbringing of the child.

Given below are the types of child custody in divorce cases:

• Joint legal custody: In this type of child custody both the parents have legal rights to make major decisions for the child; a court can grant joint legal custody without granting joint physical custody
  
• Solo Legal custody: In this type of child custody, one of the spouse who gets the child custody has all the legal rights to take major decisions for the child. The other parent only gets visitation rights in this. In this type of custody, the parent can take decisions about education, religion and health care
  
• Solo Physical custody: In this type of custody, the child stays in one place with one parent. However, the other parent gets generous visitation rights including sleep over
  
• Joint physical custody: With this type of custody, the child gets to stay with both the parents despite the fact that only one parent has legal custody of the child. This custody is setup in such a way that both the parents get equal amount of time to spend with the child. It is like a child living in a house with rotating shifts of parents.

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