What is Legal Decision Making?
As for Legal Decision-MakingThis is the right to make decisions on behalf of the child when it comes to decisions involving the child’s health, education, religion, or personal care. It does not include the right to dictate the child’s parenting time schedule or place conditions on the other parent’s time.…Read more about Legal Decision-Making, the Court will decide whether both parents or one parent will make the legal decisions. The Court can even assign that one parent have decision-making for one specific area of legal decision-making. For example, in instances where parents cannot decide on what school the child will attend, the Court will “split the tie” by awarding one parent decision-making over educational issues only.