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Child Custody Explained
By Chris Stanley
There are a number of different types of custody arrangements that can be made in a divorce, family
law, or child custody case. The types of custody orders can impact the effects of divorce on children.
First, we’ll look at actual custody. In California, there are two components to custody: legal custody
and physical custody.
Physical custody is the type of custody order that says who is going to have the child and at what time.
Most of the time, the courts grant Joint
Physical Custody with primary either to mom or dad. Sometimes, though, sole physical custody will be
granted to one party and visitation may or may not be granted to the other.
There are many kinds of physical custody arrangements. For instance, in a 50/50 split, each parent
may have the children on alternating weekends.
An 80/20 split is more common with one parent having primary custody and the other parent seeing
the kids one evening a week and having the kids every other weekend.
Legal custody is the ability to make decisions for the child. This includes everything from choosing the
school they attend to the authority to cut their hair. Again, in most cases, joint legal custody is granted
and both parents have the ability to make decisions. This means that if they disagree on issues like
what religion the child will be raised in, they must go to court to settle it.
In a limited number of cases, the Judge will decide that one party should have