**Sole Legal Custody:** One parent has the right and responsibility to make decisions relating to the health, education and welfare of a child. **Sole Legal Custody:** A type of court order in which one parent has the legal authority to make the major decisions affecting the child, like health care, education, and religion. If the parents do not agree on a decision about the child, the parent with sole legal custody has the right to make the final decision. "Sole custody" does not give one parent the right to move away with the child without notice to the other parent unless the court order specifically gives that right.