Parenting Plans
Various articles continue to demonstrate many ways that parents can minimize the negative impact of divorce on children. Many divorced parents in Norfolk and throughout Massachusetts decide to implement parenting plans to best negotiate obstacles and difficulties that arise from divorce.
The term “parenting plan” refers to a written document that addresses potential issues that arise between divorcing parents. Parenting plans offer parents the advantage of deciding how various issues will be discussed in advance, which decreases the amount of conflict from potential issues and increases the consistency with which issues are addressed.
Please refer to Massachusetts guidelines on how parenting plans show be written and get in touch with us for a free initial consultation in our office in Framingham.
Common Issues In Parenting Plans
While parenting plans can address any issue that parents desire, parenting plans frequently address some common issues between parents.
- The basic care of the child or children is one of these commonly addressed issues. This area addresses how a child eats and sleeps.
- Another commonly addressed issue in parenting plans is child custody. Child custody can assume numerous types based upon how much time each parent is allowed to spend with the child or children.
- A third issue frequently detailed in parentings plans is the transportation of the child or children.
When the divorced parents live close to one another, parenting plans often address who will pick up and drop off the child or children at each spouse’s location. When parents live further away, parenting plans tend to address issues like who will accompany the child and what party will pay for the child’s transportation costs.
Divorcing Couples Can Address Virtually Any Issue in Parenting Plans
One of the beneficial issues about parenting plans is that these agreements allow parents to address virtually any issue. Parenting plans can include a range of issues regarding how child are supervised including the child’s use of technology like cell phones and computers, how and what type of extracurricular activities the child participates in, and the child’s religious activities. This diversity of issues in parenting plans makes it difficult to write parenting plans well, which is why divorcing couples who decide to write parenting plans should seek out the most experienced and skilled legal counsel.
Each Parenting Plan Is Unique
Just as no two families are exactly the same, no parenting plan is exactly the same either. Some of the factors that make divorces unique are the age of the child or children in question, the location of the parents after the divorce, the strengths and weaknesses of each parent, and the child or children’s personality. An experienced lawyer will be able to help clients by creating a parenting plan that properly addresses all elements that are likely to arise during a divorce.
Parenting Plans Require Parents Compromise About Various Issues
Some couples undergoing a divorce are not able to negotiate issues and need a court to decide matters. To craft a parenting plans, parents must agree upon a wide range of issues. Because of this requirement to negotiate numerous issues, not all divorcing couples are able to craft parenting plans.
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Resources for Divorce Law
Massachusetts Parenting Plans
http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/courts-and-judges/courts/probate-and-family-court/parentingplan.pdf
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