the wording of the order 'live with'

[sean]

Hello dads, I'm yet to do a write up on my recent final hearing...but in the meantime I have a question from the draft order my solicitor forwarded me to review.

So on the day of final hearing, I asked for children to live with both father and mother ( joint lives with ). Mum opposed it, but Judge granted joint lives with ( WIN!)

I now have the draft order, where it starts as

"The children shall live with the father as follows:

xxx, yyy, so on and on

and at all other times the children shall live with the mother "

question then - Is that as good as the order of 'join lives with' ? The reason I wanted to clarify is because I wanted the order to explicitly say 'children lives with father and mother' as I wanted to avoid ambiguity ?

 

[proud_dad]

Legally each word in your order has meaning. The judge used "lives with", not "spends time" in your order. I am not legally qualified, but I think your order is essentially a joint lives with.

 

[sean]

Thanks proud_dad, that is what i suspected. Was also thinking of schools and GPs etc who don't quite understand these terms ( i may be wrong ) thanks again.