Factors to Consider in Child Custody Decisions
Decision making
- Day to day decisions
- Significant decisions (such as education, health, religion, religious upbringing)
- Emergency decisions (such as in a medical emergency)
- How information is shared
Residency
- Regular residency schedule
- Weekdays
- Weekends
- Long weekends
Communicating with the non resident parent
Right of other parent to have first option of care
Approved caregivers
Holiday/Special Occasion Schedule
- School spring break
- Easter
- Father’s Day
- Mother’s Day
- Summer vacation
- Christmas break
- Other Non Christian Religious Holidays
- Child’s birthday
- Parent’s birthdays
- Traditional family holidays
Extended family
Make Up time
Notice of changes to schedule
Travel
- Outside of country/notice/permission
- Travel with children/without children provide coordinates
Mobility
- Change of local address
- Moving children’s residence
Attending functions where children are present and away from parent’s home (e.g. school plays, sporting events)
Name change
Death of one parent
Death of both parents
Dispute resolution of parenting issues
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