Child Custody and Visitation Attorney in Denver, Colorado

What is the difference between physical custody and legal custody in Colorado?

More In This Category

View Transcript

00:08
so
00:09
our statute in colorado changed several
00:11
years ago so we don’t actually use the
00:13
uh verbiage custody anymore we now use
00:16
the verbiage of
00:17
allocation of parental responsibilities
00:19
or what we call apr
00:20
for short and so under that framework
00:25
in terms of physical custody we now
00:27
refer to that as parenting time
00:29
so the days of the week that the
00:31
children are with mom or with dad
00:33
and whether it be for regular parenting
00:34
time vacation parenting time holiday
00:37
parenting time
00:38
and then legal custody is now what we
00:40
refer to as
00:41
decision making so who makes the major
00:43
decisions for the children
00:44
in the areas of medical education
00:47
extracurricular
00:48
and religion well parties can either
00:51
have joint decision making where they
00:52
put their heads together and make those
00:54
decisions together or one parent can
00:55
have soul decision making
00:57
and they can make those decisions after
01:00
consultation with the other parent

Denver, CO family law attorney Halleh Omidi explains the difference between physical custody (known in Colorado as “Allocation of Parental Responsibility” or “APR”) and legal custody (in Colorado, “Decision Making”).

More Videos From This Lawyer