What is the difference between legal decision-making/placement and visitation?
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 and PlacementThis is when a child is placed with a nonparent under a third-party rights petition. The third party essentially becomes the physical custodian of the child.Read more about Placement are custodial rights; if granted, Grandparents would be taking custody from the parents. Visitation is asking to spend time with the child.