Shared residence order

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Can anyone advise? My child arrangements order represents around a 60/40 split between my exh and I. If we have a shared residence order would that denote equal parental responsibility regardless of time spent at each house? (So we both equally make decisions around the DC etc). This is what I want but there was lots of terminology bandied around during meetings with solicitors yesterday and I just want to be clear that I'm asking for the right thing!

Thanks in advance

Parental responsibility is equal regardless of time spent. Shared care is is used to avoid the winner/loser perceptions inherent in having one parent as "live with" and the other as "spend time with"

Ah Thankyou. So is it called a shared care order?

The proper description is that the Court orders that the child will live with both parents, as per attached schedule, and then sets out the arrangements.

"Shared care" is how lawyers tend to talk about it, as "a live with both parents" order is unbearably clunky. We all know what we mean by the term.

Many thanks