An entrepreneur and legal professional, Felix Rippy was recently accepted to the Indiana University School of Public Health’s graduate program in Sweden. Beginning May 2017, he will study Swedish health policies with the aim of influencing discussions in the United States. Currently, Felix Rippy serves as a founding partner at Rippy, Henderson & Taylor, PC, a general practice firm that focuses on business, criminal, and family law.

1. TYPES OF CHILD
CUSTODY UNDER
FAMILY LAW
Felix Rippy

2. Introduction
 An entrepreneur and legal professional, Felix Rippy was recently
accepted to the Indiana University School of Public Health’s
graduate program in Sweden. Beginning May 2017, he will study
Swedish health policies with the aim of influencing discussions in
the United States. Currently, Felix Rippy serves as a founding
partner at Rippy, Henderson & Taylor, PC, a general practice firm
that focuses on business, criminal, and family law.
Since family law concerns rules, legislation, and court proceedings
that affect the family unit, it necessarily encompasses child custody.
Often arising after a couple’s separation, child custody issues are
usually resolved in court. Judges recommend different forms of
custody depending on the family’s situation.
Physical custody refers to a parent’s right to live with the child in his
or her home. In some cases, the court awards one parent with sole
physical custody and grants the other visitation rights.

3. Child Custody
 Under other circumstances, both parents may share physical
custody of the child, provided that they live within a relatively
short distance to one another and the arrangement places no
unnecessary burden on the child.
Legal custody, on the other hand, determines the extent to
which a parent can make choices that affect the child’s life.
Parents who share legal custody must cooperate in order to
make joint decisions about education, religious upbringing,
and medical care, among other concerns. The important
news that Felix Rippy would like to share is that no one is
going to "lose" their child in a divorce or paternity suit or suit
affecting parent child relationship. The only question is on
what days a parent will get to see the child and which parent
will make decisions regarding where that child will go to
school, which, of course, also implicates which parent will pay
child support and health insurance to the other.