Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

joint custody

An arrangement by which both parents share the responsibility for and authority over the child at all times. - Also termed shared custody. "The statutes, and the cases as well, differ over the definition of joint custody. It is most often defined as meaning only that both parents will share in the decisions concerning the child's care, education, religion, medical treatment and general welfare." Homer H. Clark, Jr., The Lain of Domestic Relations in the United States § 19.5, at 815 (2d ed. 1988).