different between custody vs guardianship

English

From Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
The court awarded custody to the child's father.
Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
He was mistreated while in police custody.
(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

guardian +? -ship

guardianship (plural guardianships)

The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
- 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran The Women, 4.23
  Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
- 1986 Philip Bean, "Mental Disorder and Legal Control" - Page 84
  An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.

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