Commentary In March, West Virginia passed legislation entrenching a “rebuttable presumption” that, following separation, parents will enjoy equal time with their child(ren). That is, in the absence of reasonably suspected child jeopardy, judges will no longer award “custody” to either parent. Equal shared “parenting” (ESP) will be the norm. West Virginia joins Arizona (2013), Kentucky (2018), and Arkansas (2021) in arriving at this enlightened, long-overdue solution to the inherent deficits of the traditional winner-takes-all system. In Canada, where post-separation parenting rights are a federal matter, advocacy for ESP has been strong for decades, but political will for actual legislation remains weak to null. There is evidence that voluntary shared parenting “now appears to be the most common parenting arrangement in Canada in cases where both parents have had a significant role in the lives of their children before separation,” according to a Queen’s University research paper. One might therefore argue …