What's the difference between "custody" and "visitation"?

What's the difference between "custody" and "visitation"?

There's a lot of confusion between those two terms, because a lot of people think that if you have visitation rights that means you don't have custody. That is not really true. In California, whenever you spend time with a child, you have physical custody. So basically, even if you are with the child 10% of the time, and it's considered visitation rights, you are still sharing custody; you still have joint physical custody even if you have visitation just 10 percent.