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Definition: refers to the legal authority to make major decisions on behalf of the child; this may include where the child will go to school, the type of education, ...
Legal Custody
"An adult's right and responsibility to issue decisions, often with another parent, about a child's upbringing.
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Legal Custody: The authority of one parent or both parents to make legal decisions regarding health, education and welfare of the child.
Joint Legal Custody: A form of custody of minor children in which the parents share the responsibilities and major decision-making related to the child. (See child custody section).
LEGAL CUSTODY
The right and obligation to make decisions about a child's upbringing, including schooling and medical care. Many states typically have both parents share legal custody of a child. Compare physical custody.
legal custody - The right and obligation to make decisions about a child's upbringing.
Legal Process - A formal paper that is legally valid; something issuing from the court, usually a command such as a writ or mandate.
Legal Custody The legal right to makes major decisions about issues such as education, health, medical care, emotional development and religion.
legal custody The right to make important decisions about the raising of your child, on issues such as health care, religious upbringing, education, etc.
LEGAL CUSTODY: In a divorce, one of two types of child custody. A parent who has legal custody has the right to be involved in all the decision making typically involved with being a parent, such as religious upbringing, ...
Legal Custody: Relationship with a child created by court order which gives a person legal responsibility for the physical possession of a minor and the duty to protect, care for and discipline the child.
Legal custody
A child custody decision which entails the right to make, or participate in, the significant decisions affecting a child's health and welfare (compare with physical custody and joint custody).
Sole Legal Custody: A type of court order in which one parent has the legal authority to make the major decisions affecting the child, like health care, education, and religion.
Expanded Legal Definition of JactitationJoint Custody A child custody Court decision that both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody.
(see Minor)Child AbductionThe taking of a child contrary to a court order or without the permission of the parent who has legal custody of the child.
This is usually combined with legal custody. TOP Picket : To object publicly, on or adjacent to the employer's premises, to an employer's labor practices, goods or services. The most common form of picketing is patrolling with signs.
Joint custody A child custody decision which means that both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody.
Joint Custody: This term may refer to either joint legal custody or joint physical custody, or to both. There is no precise statutory definition of joint custody, so parties and the court must clarify what is intended.
Joint legal custody means that both parents can make decisions for the child, including medical treatment, but where possible they should consult the other.
There is a difference between physical custody, which designates where the child will actually live, and legal custody, which gives the custodial person(s) the right to make decisions for the child's welfare.
child born in wedlock; a stepchild, provided that the child was under 18 years of age at the time that the marriage creating the stepchild relationship occurred; a legitimated child, provided that the child was legitimated while in the legal custody ...
Custody (Of A Child) The legal authority to make decisions affecting a child's interests (legal custody) and the responsibility of taking care of the child (physical custody).
Legal custody is the decision-making part: physical custody refers to where the child lives on a regular basis. Generally, the parent the child does not live with will be allowed to have regular visits with the child.
A child custody decision which means that legal custody goes back and forth between parents like a ping-pong ball, as they, in turn, take care of the child.
A child custody decision which means that both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody.
Joint custody can be joint legal custody (in which both parents have a say in decisions affecting the child) joint physical custody (in which the child spends a significant amount of time with both parents) or, very rarely, both.
deprivation of custody - The court transfers legal custody of a person from parents or legal guardian to another person, agency or institution. It may be temporary or permanent.
Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his appearance on the day and time appointed.
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attachment: The taking of property into legal custody by an enforcement officer (see specialty section: Recovery of Chattel).
GAOLER
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the placo where prisoners are kept. 2. It is his duty... more ...
bail (verb) To procure release of a person from legal custody and to assume responsibility for his appearance in court or any designated place.
JOINT CUSTODY - When both parents share custody of a child after a divorce. There are two kinds of custody: legal custody and physical custody. Either or both may be joint.
agreements address the various factors individually, often granting one parent physical custody (meaning the child lives primarily with them but visits the other parent every other weekend and holiday) but having both parents share legal custody (the ...
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