custody case

1. 1.

   a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce)

   Broaderlegal action

   law

Questions about custody case

What does custody case mean?

custody case means "a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce)".

Is custody case a common word?

custody case 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.