PERMANENT CHILD CUSTODY

Vidhikarya09 Dec, 2021Legal

?Legal Custody?, in a family law context, is a type of Child Custody that grants a parent the right to make long-term, important decisions regarding their children. The issue of ?Child Custody? arises during judicial separation or divorce proceedings, where it becomes an important issue to be solved by the courts. It refers to the process of caring, controlling, and maintaining the child of age less than 18 years by the custodial parent to whom the Court has granted the rights under the decided parameters such as lifestyle, financial security, and understanding with a child etc. The major rights of nurturing the child with respect to medical, education, development physically and emotionally etc., lies with the parent having custodial rights while the non-custodial parent holds only the right to access and meet the child. Generally, both the parents are provided with the right of access to the child, but usually, the physical custody of the child is granted to one parent only.