this has been a long building trend um

that parents end up

more frequently with joint and equal

custody joint custody

you know means it’s the daily care and

control of the children

and that has fallen has gone from you

know primarily moms um to

quite equal i mean the expectation or

the the thing i see most is an equal

custody arrangement the other big thing

is how the law has treated custody so

that the word custody you know is the

daily care and control of the children

that’s what the statute says

but that used to affect

uh parenting time it used to affect

child support it used to affect the

ability to move out of state

and so that label was heavily fought

over

and now the legislature’s kind of taken

each of those items out of the custody

label so we have far fewer custody

fights per se i mean people still fight

over you know parenting time but they’re

fighting over the custody label less