Children with special health conditions need special consideration when it comes to making a parenting plan with your former spouse. You must consider the cost of their care and time it takes to care for them. If one party does not have the time to care for the child this will impact on any child custody decisions.

Can your child’s particular health condition – impact your child custody arrangements?

In disputes over custody, sometimes the central issue in dispute can be a particular child's health concern. Often, the child's primary carer has been responsible for seeing specialists, dealing with the treatment for the health condition and administering medication. While one parent might have intimate knowledge of a particular state, the other parent might not be so knowledgeable.

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