Shared parenting refers to a collaborative arrangement in child custody

Child custody

Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.Following ratification of the United...

 or divorce

Divorce

Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...

 determinations in which the care of the child

Child

Biologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...

ren is equal or more than substantially shared between the biological parents.

Nature and History

Shared parenting arrangements are viewed as encouraging children to know both parents are actively involved and share responsibility in their upbringing.

Shared parenting has also been referred to as "collaborative parenting", "balanced parenting" or "equal shared parenting", and can also apply after the separation of adoptive or other non-biological parents. "Equally shared parenting" refers more commonly to childraising, breadwinning, housework and recreation time that are equally shared between two parents in an intact family.

Legislation in England & Wales

A Shared Parenting Bill was presented by Mr Brian Binley

Brian Binley

Brian Arthur Roland Binley is a British Conservative politician, and the Member of Parliament for Northampton South.-Early life:...

 and had a second reading on 17 June 2011. It is a Bill to provide for the making of Shared Parenting Orders and to create a legal presumption that such Orders enhance the welfare of the child unless certain exceptions apply; and for connected purposes.

See also

• Alimony
  Alimony
  Alimony is a U.S. term denoting a legal obligation to provide financial support to one's spouse from the other spouse after marital separation or from the ex-spouse upon divorce...
  
  
• Bottoms v. Bottoms
  Bottoms v. Bottoms
  Bottoms v. Bottoms was a landmark child custody case in Virginia that awarded custody of the child to the grandmother instead of the mother, primarily because the mother was a lesbian. In April 1993, Kay Bottoms sued her daughter, Sharon Bottoms, for custody of Sharon Bottoms' son, Tyler Doustou...
  
  
• Child abduction
  Child abduction
  Child abduction or Child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor from the custody of the child's natural or legally appointed guardians....
  
  
• Child custody
  Child custody
  Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.Following ratification of the United...
  
  
• Child support
  Child support
  In family law and public policy, child support is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage or other relationship...
  
  
• Child support by country
  Child support by country
  This article includes information about the child support policies of several countries.- Australia :In Australia the Child Support Agency calculates child support based on the income of each parent, a base amount is excluded, and the amount of time the child spends with each parent...
  
  
• Child contact centre
  Child contact centre
  A contact centre is a place where a non-resident parent may have supervised contact with his or her children. Its primary role is to support and promote contact between those parents, grandparents, guardians and children that do not have a Residence Order .Use of a contact centre may be ordered by...
  
  
• Childrens centre
• Coparenting
  Coparenting
  Coparenting or co-parenting describes a parenting situation where the parents are not in a marriage, cohabitation or romantic relationship with one another.-Post-separation coparenting:...
  
  
• Custodial parent
• Deadbeat parent
• Divorce
  Divorce
  Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...
  
  
• Family law
  Family law
  Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including:*the nature of marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships;...
  
  
• Family court
  Family court
  A family court is a court convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as custody of children. In common-law jurisdictions "family courts" are statutory creations primarily dealing with equitable matters devolved from a court of inherent jurisdiction, such as a...
  
  
• Fathers' rights
  Fathers' rights
  The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Many of its members are fathers who desire to share the parenting of their children equally with their...
  
  
• Fathers' rights movement by country
  Fathers' rights movement by country
  The fathers' rights movement has evolved in many countries. This article provides details about the fathers' rights movement in specific countries.-Australia:...
  
  
• Gerald Garson
• Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
  Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
  The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty developed by the Hague Conference on Private International Law that provides an expeditious method to return a child internationally abducted from one member nation to...
  
  
• Joint custody
  Joint custody
  Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is awarded to both parties. In joint custody both parents are custodial parents and neither parent is a non-custodial parent, or, in other words, the child has two custodial parents. In the United States, many states recognize two forms of...
  
  
• Joint physical custody
• Judgment of Solomon
  Judgment of Solomon
  The Judgment of Solomon refers to a story from the Hebrew Bible in which King Solomon of Israel ruled between two women both claiming to be the mother of a child. It has become a metaphor referring to a wise judge who uses a stratagem to determine the truth, tricking the parties into revealing...
  
  
• Legal custody
  Legal custody
  -Prisoners:See of the Prison Act 1952.In section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1989, the expression "legal custody" includes detention in pursuance of any enactment or any instrument made under an enactment.-Children:See of the Children Act 1975....
  
  
• List of largest divorce settlements
• Men's movement
  Men's movement
  The men's movement is a social movement that includes a number of philosophies and organizations that seek to support men, change the male gender role and improve men's rights in regard to marriage, child access and victims of domestic violence...
  
  
• Men's rights
  Men's rights
  Men's rights is an umbrella term, encompassing the political rights, entitlements, and freedoms given or denied to males within a nation or culture....
  
  
• Mothers' rights
  Mothers' rights
  Mothers' rights movements have formed in various areas, focusing on workplace issues , breast-feeding, and rights in family law...
  
  
• Non-custodial parent
• Noncustodial parent
  Noncustodial parent
  A "noncustodial parent" is a parent who does not have physical and/or legal custody of his/her child by court order.A "child-custody determination" means a judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child. The term...
  
  
• Parens patriae
  Parens patriae
  Parens patriae is Latin for "parent of the nation." In law, it refers to the public policy power of the state to intervene against an abusive or negligent parent, legal guardian or informal caretaker, and to act as the parent of any child or individual who is in need of protection...
  
  
• Parenting coordinator
  Parenting coordinator
  Parenting coordinator is a relatively new practice that is used, in some US states, to manage on-going issues in child custody and visitation cases by professional psychologist or a lawyer assigned by the Court...
  
  
• Parenting plan
  Parenting plan
  A Parenting Plan or Custody Agreement is required by the district court along with divorce paperwork when parents divorce or separate. A Parenting Plan allows parents to avoid future conflicts arising from a lack of guidelines in dealing with responsibilities relating to the children...
  
  
• Parental alienation
  Parental alienation
  Parental alienation is a social dynamic, generally occurring due to divorce or separation, when a child expresses unjustified hatred or unreasonably strong dislike of one parent, making access by the rejected parent difficult or impossible...
  
  
• Parental alienation syndrome
  Parental alienation syndrome
  Parental alienation syndrome is term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980s to refer to what he describes as a disorder in which a child, on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification, due to a combination of factors, including indoctrination by the other...
  
  
• Paternity
• Physical custody
• Private attorney general
  Private attorney general
  Private attorney general is an informal term usually used today in the United States to refer to a private party who brings a lawsuit considered to be in the public interest, i.e., benefiting the general public and not just the plaintiff. The person considered "private attorney general" is entitled...
  
  
• Qui tam
  Qui tam
  In common law, a writ of qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed...
  
  
• Shared parenting
  Shared parenting
  Shared parenting refers to a collaborative arrangement in child custody or divorce determinations in which the care of the children is equal or more than substantially shared between the biological parents.- Nature and History :...
  
  
• Sole physical custody
• Stepchildren of the state
• Supervised visitation
  Supervised visitation
  Supervised visitation allows parents in high conflict or high risk situations access to their children in a safe and supervised environment. The noncustodial parent has access the child only when supervised by another adult...
  
  
• Tender Years Doctrine
  Tender Years Doctrine
  The tender years doctrine is a legal principle which has existed in family law since the late nineteenth century. This common law doctrine presumes that during a child's "tender" years , the mother should have custody of the child...
  
  
• Ward of the state
• Women's movement
• Women's rights
  Women's rights
  Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...
  
  

By country or culture

• Child support by country
  Child support by country
  This article includes information about the child support policies of several countries.- Australia :In Australia the Child Support Agency calculates child support based on the income of each parent, a base amount is excluded, and the amount of time the child spends with each parent...
  
  
• Childwite
  Childwite
  In medieval England, a childwite, or child-wit, was a fine paid by a man to a lord for unlawfully impregnating his bond-woman . The term was also selectively used of free women....
  
  
• Divorce in Judaism#Custody of children

United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

• Bradley Amendment
  Bradley Amendment
  In United States law, the Bradley Amendment requires state courts to prohibit retroactive reduction of child support obligations...
  
  
• California Child Support Guideline Review
  California Child Support Guideline Review
  Each US state is responsible for developing a child support enforcement program that complies with federal requirements, including a Guidelines method of calculating child support. At a minimum, 45 C.F.R...
  
  
• Child custody laws in the United States
  Child custody laws in the United States
  Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child...
  
  
• Child support in the United States
  Child support in the United States
  The law governing child support in the United States varies state-by-state and Native American tribe-by-tribe; each individual state and federally recognized tribe is responsible for developing its own guidelines for determining child support....
  
  
• Hermesmann v. Seyer
  Hermesmann v. Seyer
  Hermesmann v. Seyer was a precedent-setting Kansas, United States case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act, like statutory rape, committed by the woman...
  
  
• State of Louisiana v. Frisard
  State of Louisiana v. Frisard
  State of Louisiana v. Frisard, 694 So. 2d 1032 , established a legal precedent in Louisiana stating that a man is strictly liable for his sperm if he engages in consensual sexual contact...
  
  

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

• Child Support Agency
  Child Support Agency
  The Child Support Agency is a delivery arm of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in Great Britain and the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland...
  
   (UK)
• Shared residency in English law
  Shared residency in English law
  Shared residence, or joint residence, refers to the situation where the child of parents who have divorced or separated reside with each parent at different times, and each parent has equal status in law. In English family law s8 Children Act 1989 defines a residence order as one "...settling the...
  
  
• Residence in English law
  Residence in English law
  Residence in English law can refer to*Family law*Immigration law*Taxation law:See also*Residence in English family law....
  
  

External links

• The American Coalition of Fathers and Children (Largest member supported shared parenting organization in the USA)
• Shared Parenting Council of Australia
• U.S. Parenting Plan Examples
• Shared Parenting organization
• Families Need Fathers - Prominent shared parenting charity in the UK
• Equally Shared Parenting