Custodia

As part of every custody case, there will likely be a parenting plan put into place, which is a written plan describing each parent’s rights and responsibilities.¹ The parents can come up with the parenting plan together or, if that’s not possible, the judge will create it.²

Within the parenting plan, there will be a detailed parenting schedule. This schedule will include the days of the week and hours of the day that each parent will have the child with them. The parenting schedule can be agreed to by the parents or ordered by the judge.³ It will include when the child will live with or spend non-residential parenting time with each parent. It is not supposed to use the phrase that the child “resides primarily” with one parent or that one parent has “primary residential responsibility” or “custody” or is the “primary residential parent.”⁴ 

For more information, go to What is usually included in a parenting plan?

¹ N.H. Rev. Stat. § 461-A:1(VI)
¹ N.H. Rev. Stat. § 461-A:4(I)
¹ N.H. Rev. Stat. § 461-A:1(VII)
¹ N.H. Rev. Stat. § 461-A:4(VI)