“Joint legal custody” means that both parents shall share the right and the responsibility to make the decisions relating to the health, education, and welfare of a child.
Cal. Fam. Code § 3003
Definitions
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)
Most recently applied in Jenny Flores v. Merrick Garland (June 2021)
Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.