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What different child custody orders are made by the court?
Residency: “Residency” is the designation used to identify
the parent with whom the child usually lives. This parent has no more or
less right to decide matters
regarding the child than does the other parent – this designation is
simply a recognition of a fact that the child spends more time living with
one parent than the other.
Parenting Time: “Parenting time” is the time that a
parent is designated to spend with his or her child. This is what has, in the past, been commonly known as “parental
visitation.” The terms have changed, however, to recognize that
parents do not “visit” their children, but that both parents
are an integral part of their child’s life and that whatever time is
spend with the child by a parent, whether as a primary residential parent
or non-residential parent.
Visitation: “Visitation” is the designation used for
time spent by a child with a third party (i.e. a non-parent, such as a
grandparent, aunt, uncle, stepparent, sibling or other third party). A
third party does not have the right to visit the child unless the parents
agree to that visitation or the court orders that visitation on appropriate
motion and order.
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