How are parental rights and responsibilities allocated?
• it may allocate the parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the children primarily to one of the parents, designating that parent as the “residential parent” and the legal custodian of the child, and divide between the parents the other rights and responsibilities for the care of the children, including, but not limited to, the responsibility to provide support for the children and the right of the parent who is not the residential parent to have continuing contact with the children; or • the court may allocate the parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the children to both parents and issue a “shared parenting” order requiring the parents to share all or some of the aspects of the physical and legal care of the children in accordance with the approved plan for shared parenting. In a shared parenting situation, each parent, regardless of where the child is physically located or with whom the child is residing at a particular point in time, as specified in t
