joint custody see custody ...
custody [Latin custodia, from custod- custos guardian] : care or control exercised by a person or authority over something or someone: as a : supervision and control over property that usually includes liability for damage that may occur b : care and maintenance of a child that includes the right to direct the child's activities and make decisions regarding the child's upbringing compare visitation joint custody : custody of a child shared by divorced or separated parents who alternate physical custody of and share in decisions regarding the child called also shared custody phys·i·cal custody : custody that includes sharing a residence with a child shared custody : joint custody in this entry sole custody : custody of a child awarded to only one person and usually to a parent tem·po·rary custody : custody awarded until a final judgment in a matter (as a divorce) is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or imprisonment or by release on bai...
joint physical custody The sharing, by both parents, of the actual physical care and custody of a child. ...
joint legal custody The sharing, by both parents, of the right to make important decisions about a child's welfare. ...
child support : payment made for the support of the children of divorced or separated parents while the children are minors or until they reach an age set by the separation agreement or in a court order compare alimony NOTE: Child support is usually paid by the parent who is without custody. In the case of joint custody, both parents usually pay child support. ...
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
Custody, The word is of elastic semantics but its core meaning is that the law has taken control of the person, Nianjan Singh v. Prabhakar Rajaram Kharote, (1980) 2 SCC 559: AIR 1980 SC 785 (787): (1980) 3 SCR 15. [Criminal Procedure Code (1974) s. 439]Means physical custody, Warner v. Metropolitan Police Commr., (1969) 2 AC 256: (1968) 2 All ER 356, HL Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 59, p. 55.Custody, he who under the control of the Court or is in the physical hold of an officer with coercive power, is in custody for the purpose of s. 439, Nirmaljeet Kaur v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 7 SCC 558.The word is of elastic semantics but its core meaning is that the law has taken control of the person. The expression 'custody' as used in s. 439 must be taken to be a compendious expression referring to the events on the happening of which the Magistrate can entertain a bail petition of an accused, Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 608 (613, 614). (Criminal Procedur...
custodial 1 : occurring during or in connection with custody [a interrogation] 2 : having sole custody or custody a greater portion of the time [a parent] ...
split custody A form of custody (generally not looked upon favorably) in which some or one of the parties' children is/are in the custody of one parent and the remaining child(ren) is/are in the custody of the other parent. ...
joint and several : relating or belonging to two or more parties together and separately [joint and several duties of the partners] see also joint and several liability at liability compare in solido, joint, jointly joint·ly and sev·er·al·ly adv ...