*help* non-custoial vs. custodial???

[VC81]

I have 50 percent custody of my child. We have joint physical and joint legal custody. She spends one week with me and one week with her mother, etc. And I have the legal right to claim my child on my taxes.

During this whole custody issue I'm dealing with, I keep being refered to as the "NON-CUSTODIAL" parent and my ex keeps being refured to as the custodial parent.

Why is it automaticly assumed that I am the non-custodial parent, when I have 50 percent custody of my child and we have joint legal and phycial custody?? Am I assumed to be the "non-custodial" parent because I am a male??

I really would like to understand things better because I think it's totaly unfair that I am being labled the non-custodial parent when I have a right to be called the custodial parent.

Anyone have any awsners??

[Troubledmom]

You are considered the non custodial because you have the support obligation.

TM

[Yngsmommy]

But yo umight want to correct them and say "Joint custodial"