noncustodial

adjective

non·cus·to·di·al ˌnän-kə-ˈstō-dē-əl

: of or being a parent who does not have sole custody of a child or who has custody a smaller portion of the time

Examples of noncustodial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In January, police in Ohio released video showing officers pulling over a car and rescuing a missing 4-year-old Michigan girl after she was allegedly taken by her noncustodial father. —

Greg Norman, Fox News, 25 July 2023 The most lucrative hack in 2023 targeted a noncustodial wallet provider called Atomic Wallet. —

Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 18 Aug. 2023 Harmony Montgomery, 5, was reported missing two years after she was last seen when her noncustodial biological mother discovered her ex-con father had never enrolled her in elementary school. —

Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023 FinCEN provided clear guidance in 2019 and stressed the important difference between a custodial wallet (hosted) and a noncustodial wallet (unhosted). —

Hailey Lennon, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 In an opinion written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, the court ruled that a noncustodial parent could not invoke the law. —

John Fritze, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023 According to a press release from the USMS, many of the children were runaways or abducted by noncustodial persons. —

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 May 2023 This kind of interview would be called a noncustodial interview, which means at any point during the interview, Reality Winner could have walked away. —

Rachel Seo, Variety, 29 May 2023 Montgomery went missing from her father’s custody in 2019, according to authorities, but a missing person report wasn’t filed until late last year when her noncustodial mother learned she had never been registered to attend school in her father’s hometown. —

Emma Colton, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2022 See More

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