Aug. 30, 2018-There are precedents for Equal Shared Parenting.

It was also noted that a number of jurisdictions have now moved in the direction of establishing a rebuttable legal presumption of shared parenting. A recent Council of Europe resolution (Council of Europe, 2014), for example, encourages member states to adopt shared parenting as the foundation of family law, as an outgrowth of the emerging consensus in the scientific community on the benefits of shared parenting.

Edward Kruk (2018): Arguments Against a Presumption of Shared Physical Custody in Family Law, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2018.1454201 at page 11.

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