Situation in which both parents continue to make joint decisions for their child's education, medical care, religious training, camp, and other day to day matters.

Parents who don't live together have joint custody (also called shared custody) when they share the decision-making responsibilities for, and/or physical control and custody of, their children. Joint custody can exist if the parents are divorced, separated, or no longer cohabiting, or even if they never lived together. A situation wherein the child spends time sleeping in both parents' homes.