Custody includes both legal and physical custody. Joint legal custody can involve both parents in decision-making by phone, mail or video conferences. Joint physical custody or custody and visitation may require regular travel by the child or by either or both parents to facilitate parenting time. The distance factor may mean that parents will need to get creative about creating a realistic, workable arrangement. For example, a child may spend most of the school year with one parent and every summer, winter and spring break with the other.