Child Medical Decisions Lawyer in San Diego, CA

When parents of a child separate or divorce, one of the many issues they will deal with is the determination of who has custody of the children. While a court will order “physical custody” of the children, which is the decision of where the child lives and how much time the child will spend with each parent, the court will also order “legal custody” of the children, which involves the ability to make decisions about the child’s life, such as where they go to school. This also includes the highly important decision of how the parents will make medical decisions for the child’s physical and mental wellness. At the Law Offices of Andy Cook in San Diego, we help parties who are dealing with child medical decisions, while ensuring that the rights and interests of the parties and those of their children are preserved and protected now and into the future.

Determining Which Parent Makes a Child’s Medical Decisions in California

The most critical time for a parent to assert their right to have a say in a child’s medical decisions is prior to the time that a custody order is issued by a court. The parents of a child can create their own arrangement for custody – involving matters of both physical custody and legal custody – at the time they are seeking a separation or divorce. Who will have a say in a child’s medical decisions and how exactly those decisions will ultimately be made is something that will likely need to be discussed in detail in the legal agreement they reach given the complicated process for obtaining health care in general.