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Custody

Laws current as of January 11, 2024

What is joint custody?

Joint custody means you share legal and physical custody with the other parent.

Joint physical custody means that the child lives with you and the other parent according to a schedule laid out by a parenting plan. The parenting plan should allow both you and the other parent to have frequent, continuing, and meaningful contact with the child.

Joint legal custody means that you and the other parent share decision-making power about important decisions regarding the child.1

1 HI ST § 571-46.1(b)

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