Decisions

When parents separate or divorce, they have to make a lot of decisions.

They have to decide who you will live with, and how that will work. This is called custody and access.

• If you live with one parent, when will you get to see the other parent? How often? And for how long? There are lots of different ways to arrange how you will spend time with your parent.
• If you live with both parents, will you stay with one parent during the week and the other during the weekend? Or will you spend one week with one parent and one week with the other? There are lots of different ways to live with both parents.

   

Then your parents have to decide how much money one parent has to give the other to help pay for the things you need. This is called child support.