Joint custody is when parents have both joint physical custody and joint legal custody. In an action for divorce, an award of joint custody is favored in Arkansas.¹ If, at any time, the judge determines that one parent has a pattern of intentionally creating conflict in an attempt to disrupt a current or pending joint-custody arrangement, the judge can consider such behavior to be a material change of circumstances and can change a joint custody order to an order of primary custody to the nondisruptive parent.²

¹ A.C.A. §§ 9-13-101(a)(1)(A)(iii)
² A.C.A. §§ 9-13-101(b)(1)(A)(iii)