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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Joint legal custody, the most common arrangement, means that the parents make all those decisions jointly.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Joint guardianship is another possibility, which can serve as a compromise between joint custody and sole custody.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Joint physical custody may lessen or eliminate the traumatic sense of loss and rejection children often feel when a parent moves out.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Joint Physical Custody - both parents have the ability to be with the child, typically joint physical custody is coupled with a parenting plan to determine who will be with the child at what particular time.
Children in joint custody were rated as better adjusted by their mothers compared with children of sole custody mothers.
Joint custody arrangements are usually decided by the parents during the divorce settlement, but the final custody decision is always made by the court.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Sometimes joint custody refers to one parent having sole legal custody combined with a shared residence allowing access to children, sometimes it refers to joint legal custody, sometimes to shared physical custody and with a joint legal custody regime and so on.
The enactment of the presumption in favor of physical joint custody will simply mean that more child support orders will be calculated under the joint custody portion of the guideline rather than the sole custody portion of that same guideline.
There are two types of legal custody under Missouri law , joint legal custody and sole legal custody to one parent.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Joint physical custody can reduce the likelihood of welfare dependency by providing that the child receives substantial, direct support in each of the two households and by reducing child care burdens such that both parents are better able to participate in the paid work force.
Joint legal custody is a legal doctrine that affirms the right of both parents to remain involved in the important decisions concerning their child's health, education, and welfare.
Joint custody is not awarded where the parents have demonstrated an inability to cooperate on issues affecting the children nor will it be awarded when the non-custodial parent places his/her own needs above those of the child.
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