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===Sole custody=== | ===Sole custody=== | ||
Having sole custody means having responsibility for the child on a day-to-day basis and providing the home where the child primarily lives. | |||
For some | For some separated parents, sole custody is ideal. In such cases, one parent, typically the parent who was not the children's primary caregiver during the relationship, has less of a personal interest in being with the children all of the time than the other parent, and is quite content to resign custody. In other cases, the parents live too far apart from each other, or have such a poor relationship with each other, that any other order wouldn't work. | ||
In some cases, sole custody is necessary to protect the children from the conflict between their parents. Where emotions run too high, and the parties find themselves simply incapable of communicating with each other without fighting and exchanging insults, sole custody may be necessary to shield children from their parents' conflict and give them as much stability as possible. | |||
===Joint custody=== | ===Joint custody=== |