WYOMING Part 22

If you have sole legal custody (also referred to as primary custody), then you are the parent who has the ultimate decision-making responsibility for the child.

If you have joint or shared legal custody of your child, it means that you share the right to make major decisions about your child with the other parent. Joint legal custody is sometimes referred to as “joint custody”. Both parents have the right to make decisions affecting the child even though only one parent has physical custody (your child lives with only one parent). Joint legal custody allows both parents to have a say in major issues like where your child goes to school, whether s/he will have surgery and what kind of religious training s/he receives.**