In many states, there are two types of child custody: legal and physical. They may at first appearance sound the same, but they are not.
Custody is often thought of as which parent gets the children after a couple divorces. In previous years, one parent was typically designated the custodial parent, meaning the parent with whom the children live, while the other was the non-custodial parent, who typically had visitation rights but did not share in the custody.
These days, however, judges in most states prefer to order joint custody to encourage both parents active involvement in the lives of their children. Joint custody is sometimes called shared custody orshared parenting.However, joint child custody can be legal, physical, or both.
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