People still talk about “shared residence orders”.

But technically, that is the old language.

The court no longer makes residence orders in the same way.

The modern term is a child arrangements order.

That order can say who a child lives with.

Who they spend time with.

And when.

So if people say “shared residence”, they usually mean an order saying the child lives with both parents.

Not just visits one of them.

Lives with both.

Post written by a retired family law solicitor advocate

I originally wrote this post on 9 November 2006

https://divorcesolicitor.blogspot.com/2006/11/secret-wish.html

I know a young boy who attended his father's wedding recently. In the joviality of events he was asked to make three wishes by a passing drunken adult.

OK he said:

Number 1 - I want to be a famous footballer

Number 2 - I want my mum to stop being mean to me.