Even if parents don't live together, this is what the law expects them to do. Sometimes that's not possible. If you can't agree about how each of you should meet your responsibilities and you can't talk about it on your own, you could get help from a mediation service. There, someone who's trained to help you to deal with disagreements will let you try to talk about your differences. If that doesn't work, you could seek advice from a solicitor, and as a last resort you can ask a court to make a decision.
Children can themselves also ask the court to make a decision.
But remember court should always be a last resort in disagreements within families. In any case the court will only do something if it is necessary to do it in the child's best interest. People have Parental Rights so that they can meet their Parental Responsibilities. Now we've found out what parental responsibilities and rights are. Let's look at exactly who has them .