Empowering Families Through Legal Advocacy

No family is the same, and these options can address their unique scenarios:

• Physical custody: Determines who the kids live with and where they live after the divorce.
• Legal custody: Determines who can make decisions about the children’s health care, education and religion after divorce.
• Sole custody: One parent has exclusive custody of the kids. They can either have full legal custody, full physical custody, or both.
• Joint custody: When both parents share custody of the kids – that can be legal custody, physical custody or both. Parents can establish joint custody specifics in a parenting plan.
• Visitation: When a parent gets the right to visit their kids. You can establish or advocate for visitation guidelines through a parenting plan.
• Split custody: Each parent takes full custody of one or more of their kids. Parents may choose to do this if one of their kids requires additional support and one spouse has more capacity to give that support than the other.
• Grandparent visitation and custody: Can establish if/when grandparents can visit their grandkids, as long as it serves the children’s best interests.
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Andrew LeLiever can help you evaluate which options fits the needs of you and your children.