custody battle

1. 1.

   litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple

   Broaderlitigation

   law

Questions about custody battle

What does custody battle mean?

custody battle means "litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple".

Is custody battle a common word?

custody battle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.