Joint custody means parents share responsibility for the child. The child splits time between both households, such as spending one week with one parent and the next week with the other parent.

Joint custody is an arrangement where two co-parents share responsibility for a child–even if the parents do not live together and are not raising the child together in one household.

Joint physical custody, which is steadily becoming the preferred arrangement in many states, is when kids divide their time between Mom’s place and Dad’s place, usually with at least a 70%-30% ...