What’s in a name?
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Just across the river from St. Louis, in Illinois, divorce attorneys will have to speak to their clients differently. No more will they discuss child custody, but instead, the “allocation of parenting time and responsibility.” Their clients will be referred to as “spouses” and not “husbands and wives,” but rather “spouses.” On the one hand, it may seem insubstantial. Does it really matter that the time a child spends with their parents is called “custody” or “parenting time?” In fact, it may. One of the problems with the