Difference between revisions of "Agreements after Separation"

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 ====Custody and access====
-There are two basic types of custody available under the ''Divorce Act'': sole custody and joint custody. Sole custody is fairly rare, and is usually only appropriate where the parties are constantly at each other's throats or where one party expects to be absent from the child's life. Joint custody is far more common than sole custody. In this situation, both parents are custodians of the children and both have responsibility for making decisions about the children.
+There are two basic types of custody available under the ''Divorce Act'': sole custody and joint custody. Sole custody is less common than it used to be, and is usually only appropriate where the parties are constantly at each other's throats or where one party is or expects to be absent from the child's life. Joint custody is far more common than sole custody. In this situation, both parents are custodians of the children and both have responsibility for making decisions about the children.
 Joint custody has little to do with how much time the child spends with each parent. The child's time can be shared equally or almost equally, or the child can see a parent only on weekends, and the parents can still have joint custody.