Shared parenting

Family law
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Annulment Divorce Legal separation (Alimony)
Issues affecting children
Adoption Child abduction Child abuse Child custody Child marriage Child Protective Services (United States) Child support Contact (including visitation) Emancipation of minors Foster care Grandparent visitation Legal guardian Legitimacy Parental responsibility Parenting coordinator Parenting plan Paternity Residence in English family law Ward
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Related areas
Adultery Bigamy Domestic violence Incest

Shared parenting refers to a collaborative arrangement in child custody or divorce determinations in which the care of the children is equal or substantially shared between the biological parents.

Nature and History

Shared parenting arrangements are viewed as encouraging children to know both parents are actively involved and share responsibility in their upbringing.

Shared parenting has also been referred to as "collaborative parenting", "balanced parenting" or "equal shared parenting", and can also apply after the separation of adoptive or other non-biological parents. "Equally shared parenting" refers more commonly to childraising, breadwinning, housework and recreation time that are equally shared between two parents in an intact family.

Legislation in England & Wales

A Shared Parenting Bill was presented by Mr Brian Binley and had a second reading on 17 June 2011. It is a Bill to provide for the making of Shared Parenting Orders and to create a legal presumption that such Orders enhance the welfare of the child unless certain exceptions apply; and for connected purposes.

See also

• Alimony
• Bottoms v. Bottoms
• Child abduction
• Child custody
• Child support
• Child support by country
• Child contact centre
• Childrens centre
• Coparenting
• Custodial parent
• Deadbeat parent
• Divorce
• Family law
• Family court
• Fathers' rights
• Fathers' rights movement by country
• Gerald Garson
• Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Joint custody
• Joint physical custody
• Judgment of Solomon
• Legal custody
• List of largest divorce settlements
• Men's movement
• Men's rights
• Mothers' rights
• Non-custodial parent
• Noncustodial parent
• Parens patriae
• Parenting coordinator
• Parenting plan
• Parental alienation
• Parental alienation syndrome
• Paternity
• Physical custody
• Private attorney general
• Qui tam
• Shared parenting
• Sole physical custody
• Stepchildren of the state
• Supervised visitation
• Tender Years Doctrine
• Ward of the state
• Women's movement
• Women's rights

By country or culture

• Child support by country
• Childwite
• Divorce in Judaism#Custody of children

United States

• Bradley Amendment
• California Child Support Guideline Review
• Child custody laws in the United States
• Child support in the United States
• Hermesmann v. Seyer
• State of Louisiana v. Frisard

United Kingdom

• Child Support Agency (UK)
• Shared residency in English law
• Residence in English law

Australia

• Child Support Agency Australia
• Family Court of Australia

External links

• The American Coalition of Fathers and Children (Largest member supported shared parenting organization in the USA)
• Shared Parenting Council of Australia
• U.S. Parenting Plan Examples
• Shared Parenting organization
• Families Need Fathers - Prominent shared parenting charity in the UK
• Equally Shared Parenting