Parenting Plan Tool

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Table of Contents

• COMING UP WITH A PARENTING PLAN
  • How can I use this parenting plan tool?
  • Do I need to address all of the issues covered in this parenting plan tool?
• SECTION 1: NAMES OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS
• SECTION 2: GENERAL STATEMENTS AND RULES ABOUT THE PARENTING RELATIONSHIP
• SECTION 3: MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT THE CHILDREN
  • Important Decisions about the Children
  • Day-to-day decisions
  • Emergency decisions
• SECTION 4: CHILDREN'S TIME WITH EACH PARENT
  • Regular parenting schedule
  • Persons authorized to pick up and drop off the children
  • Vacations, holidays, special days
    • Children's birthdays
    • Parent's birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day
    • School spring break
    • Christmas
    • Easter
    • Thanksgiving
    • Victoria Day
    • Summer holidays
    • Halloween
  • Scheduling extra-curricular activities
  • Telephone and other contact
  • Childcare
  • Time with other people
• SECTION 5: SHARING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATING ABOUT THE CHILDREN
  • Information about the children
  • Attendance at child-related events
  • Communicating about the children
  • Exchange of contact information
• SECTION 6: APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CHILDREN
  • Doctor's appointments
  • Dentist's appointments
  • Children's personal items
  • Documents
• SECTION 7: TRAVEL
  • Vacations
  • Passports
  • Restrictions on Travel
• SECTION 8: MOVES
  • Local moves
  • Relocation
  • Additional Costs Due to Distance
• SECTION 9: DISPUTE RESOLUTION
  • Costs
• SECTION 10: REVIEWING, MONITORING AND CHANGING THE PARENTING PLAN
  • First Parenting Plan Review
  • Regular Parent Meetings
  • Unanticipated Changes

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