1. Joint Legal Custody - means that the parents share the decision-making rights, responsibilities, and authority relating to the health, education and welfare of the child, and, unless allocated, apportioned, or decreed otherwise, the parents shall confer with one another in the exercise of decision-making rights, responsibilities, and authority.

2. Joint Physical Custody - means an order awarding each of the parents significant, but not necessarily equal, periods of time during which a child resides with or is under the care and supervision of each of the parents. Joint physical custody shall be shared by the parents in such a way as to assure the child of frequent, continuing and meaningful contact with both parents. R.S.Mo. 452.375. Paul E. Evans has practiced Personal Injury, Workers Compensation, Family and Domestic legal matters in private practice for twenty years.. He is presently Owner/Managing Attorney of BLUE SPRINGS LAW OFFICE, a Blue Springs, MO law firm (www.bluespringslawoffice.com). He holds his JD with University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and his BA with the University of Missouri Kansas City. The foregoing is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship