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Residence Order and co-parenting

This is an order that confirms with which parent a child will live for the majority of the time.

The parent who does not have residence of the child will usually have a contact order and this can state the arrangements for overnight contact at weekends and during the holidays.

It is possible for the parents to have a joint residence order where the child splits their time between two homes.

But the court is only likely to do this if the parents live very close to each other so that the child only goes to one school and does not have to spend a lot of time travelling between addresses.