Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 25 > Chapter 4 - Legal Decision-Making and Parenting Time

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Child: means any person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-101
• court: means the juvenile division of the superior court. See Arizona Laws 8-101
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• In loco parentis: means a person who has been treated as a parent by a child and who has formed a meaningful parental relationship with a child for a substantial period of time. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Joint legal decision-making: means both parents share decision-making and neither parent's rights or responsibilities are superior except with respect to specified decisions as set forth by the court or the parents in the final judgment or order. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Legal decision-making: means the legal right and responsibility to make all nonemergency legal decisions for a child including those regarding education, health care, religious training and personal care decisions. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Legal parent: means a biological or adoptive parent whose parental rights have not been terminated. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Parenting time: means the schedule of time during which each parent has access to a child at specified times. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Sole legal decision-making: means one parent has the legal right and responsibility to make major decisions for a child. See Arizona Laws 25-401
• Visitation: means a schedule of time that occurs with a child by someone other than a legal parent. See Arizona Laws 25-401