About residence
Find out where your child can have residence and address.
- Everyone must have registered their address in accordance with the Act on the Central Population Register (CPR Act).
- The address must be registered where you live or stay, and you can only have an address in one place.
- Parents with joint custody can decide where the child will live and have his/her address, and can decide that the child will live and have an address with someone other than the legal parents.
- If there is disagreement about where the child should live, a decision on the child's residence can be applied for from the Family Law Centre. It is the family court that makes a judgement on the child's place of residence. The family court can only decide that the residence must be with a parent who has a share in the custody.
- When you are a resident parent, it means that regardless of whether the custody is joint or not, you make the decisions that have to do with: the daily care of the child, choice of daycare centre, leisure activities, moving domestically, school psychologist, child expert counselling and children's groups, etc.
- If you have agreed on "shared residence", it means that you must make these decisions together.
- If the child's address is with someone who does not have custody, he or she will not be able to make the decisions on the above without the involvement of the custodian.
- If you choose that the child should live with someone who does not have custody, you must be aware that the child's maintenance obligation lies with the legal parents and that public benefits regarding the child's maintenance only accrue to the custodial parents.