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07.17.14 |

What types of custody are recognized by the courts in Pennsylvania?

There are seven types of custody in Pennsylvania:

  • Legal custody: The legal right to make major decisions affecting the best interest of a minor child, including medical, religious and educational decisions.
  • Physical custody: The actual physical possession and control of the minor child.
  • Partial custody: The right to have the child away from the custodial parent for a certain period of time.
  • Shared custody: An order awarding shared legal or shared physical custody or both of a minor child in a way to assure the child’s frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Shared custody need not be equal in time split between homes of parents.
  • Visitation: The right to visit the minor child. This does not include the right to remove a child from the custodial parent’s control.
  • Temporary custody: An order awarding physical possession of a child pending the final determination of custody.
  • Sole custody: An order awarding sole custody to one parent only when it is in the best interest of the child.

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