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paternal custody

n. An arrangement whereby only the father has physical and legal custody of a child while the mother has visitation rights.

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Atkinson had at length wearied of Flambeau's almost paternal custody, and had endeavoured to knock him down, which was by no means a smooth game to play with the Roi des Apaches, even after that monarch's abdication.