Many people know the system where one parent pays another
parent for the costs associated with raising the couple’s children as custody.
Many people will also refer to the time with kids as visitation. But the more accurate terms that courts and
family law attorneys prefer to use are decision-making and parenting time. The
key distinction is that the term custody implies ownership, and parents don’t
own their children.
Decision-making and parenting time are preferred because
they recognize that your children are their own people and that neither you nor
your spouse is the owner of them.
Decision-making addresses how the major decisions in your children’s
lives will be made. Parenting time is a
determination of when the children will be with each parent.
When you are discussing your kids with your attorney, use
the terms parenting time and decision-making. A parenting plan will outline
where the children will live, what time each parent will spend with the
children, who will make parenting decisions and how, the child’s holiday and
vacation schedules and how vacation time will be split.
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