If you have primary custody do you have to let the other parent participate in the child's school placement?

Answer 1

This is not legal advice. For legal advice in your particular circumstance, please consult a qualified attorney in your area. Assuming a joint custody provision exists, the noncustodial parent has an absolute right to be involved in all aspects of a child's life. Impeding or interfering in the exercise of that right can be punishable by law in many states.

Furthermore, primary does not mean sole custody which is rarely given to any one parent. Your ex has secondary residential and parental responsibility of the child. Include them, in writing. If he/she doesn't want anything to do with it OK, if he/she does, include him or her. Isn't it in the best interest of all children to see his or her parents work out their differences with grace and maturity, instead of placing a child in the position to take sides. Without knowing it, that is what you are doing, barring DOCUMENTED AND REPORTED abuse, domestic violence and such, in which no justification would be required here.

•• I have primary custody (and sole legal custody) of my daughter, and as this was explained to me by my lawyer, I basically have all say and he has pretty much none. The only time he can make a decision concerning her is on the days she is visiting with him. I don't know what the "legal custody" arangements are in your case, but primary is the next best thing to sole custody. His rights end once the visitation time ends, and they continue again once the next visitation starts.