Shared custody arrangements can have many variations. There can be a primary residential parent and a non-residential parent who spends time with the child according to a standard visitation schedule. Some courts have also approved plans where the residential parent alternates annually, monthly or weekly. Parents can generally agree on a shared parenting plan, or each parent can submit his or her own plan to the court and allow the court to decide. Either way, the court must approve the plan.
Laws regarding shared custody arrangements, or shared parenting, vary a lot from state to state.
It s important that you contact a qualified divorce lawyer in your local area for advise about how to put together such an arrangement. My husband and I have been separated for several months. I recently moved in with another man. My husband says that he s going to divorce me and take our daughter away from me because I m committing adultery. Adultery is a ground for divorce in most states.