Parenting plan
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When parents separate there may be considerable advantage in formally agreeing how they will deal with the children. A parenting plan is a document which sets out the main issues in detail. Typically a parenting plan would include a contact schedule, the agreed positions in respect of contentious issues (i.e. health & safety, education and religion etc.), and specify how the plan would be updated.
Governments have a clear interest in ensuring that disputes between parents do not spill over into the family courts. One way of doing this is through the encouragement of parenting plans. Some family courts now require a plan to be drawn up when there has been a history of avoidable litigation on custody matters.
The Parenting Plan is a leaflet published by the UK's Lord Chancellor's Department and now carried on by the Department for Constitutional Affairs intended to be useful to parents involved in divorce or separation.
[edit] See also
- contact centre
- divorce
- fathers' rights
- residence in English law
- shared parenting
- shared residency in English law
[edit] External links
- CustodyIQ.com - Free Parenting Plan Information
- www.OurFamilyWizard.com - Tools to help divorced parents share information, schedules and expenses
- Dr. Stephen Baskerville, ACFC President (Insightful writings on divorce industry's affects on shared parenting)
- The Plan itself
- ParentTime.Net - Information about online parenting time and child custody scheduling
- Court-Approved Parenting Plans
- Shared Parenting Information Group
- Shared Parenting Tool for Non-Custodial Parents
- Child Custody Parenting Plan Options
- Shared parenting tips
- Shared Parenting Plans and Information
- SPIG Parenting Plans
- Mediation support in developing a parenting plan or resolving contentious divorce issues
- Teri Stoddard - Feminist4Fathers (and mothers)
- Shared Parenting Works
- National Fathers' Resource Center (NFRC) - Tools, advice, online courses, and information for fathers. Parenting and father's rights advocates as an outreach branch of the Fathers for Equal Rights, Inc. organization in Texas.