Walk It Through: The Custody Schedule
Both parents asking for joint custody, what the court weighs, and a job offer three states away.
Divorcing parents both ask for joint custody.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Custody between two parents. Child support amounts, grandparents and third parties, and a parent found to have committed abuse are on their own pages.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.