Fill and Sign the Minnesota Custody Agreements Form

That the parties agree that sharing joint legal custody shall include the following considerations: A. The award of "joint legal custody" means that both parties have equal rights and responsibilities in major decisions determining their children's upbringing, including education, health care and religious training. Neither party's rights are superior to those of the other; B. The parties shall confer and consult with one another in the major areas of the children's lives, including but not limited to their health care, religious training, and education, and where decisions in these areas are needed shall attempt in good faith to reach a joint decision; C. Both parties shall have the right to inspect and receive the children's medical and dental records and the right to consult with any treating physician or dentist of the children; D. Both parties shall have the right to consult with school officials concerning the children's welfare and educational status and the right to inspect and receive student records; E. Both parties shall have the right to receive or have forwarded promptly from the appropriate parent or school, copies of all school reports, calendar of school events, notice of parent-teacher conferences and school programs; and F. In the event of accident or sudden illness or other emergency affecting a child, the parent with the child at the time shall have authority to act in the child's best interest including the right to authorize emergency medical, surgical, hospital, dental, institutional or psychiatric care, and shall notify the other parent as soon as possible under the circumstances.