Custody

Unless the parents agree in writing on an allocation of significant decision-making responsibilities, the judge will grant (allocate) to one or both of the parents the significant decision-making responsibility for each significant issue affecting the child. Those significant issues include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. education, including the choice of schools and tutors;
2. health, including all decisions relating to the medical, dental, and psychological needs of the child and to the treatments arising or resulting from those needs;
3. religion, taking into account any agreement between the parents. If there is no agreement, the judge will consider evidence of the parents’ past conduct as to the child’s religious upbringing and allocate decision-making responsibilities accordingly; and
4. extracurricular activities.¹

¹ 750 ILCS 5/602.5(b)