Parenting Time and decision-making

Quick Update 3/24/2020

A very quick update on Co-Parenting, parenting plans, and exchange of children during the COVID outbreak. The guidelines I’ve posted earlier remain in effect —

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A very quick update on Co-Parenting, parenting plans, and exchange of children during the COVID outbreak. The guidelines I’ve posted earlier remain in effect — parenting plans and court orders for child parenting time remain in effect and should be...

The never ending question of whether Arizona has a presumption of equal parenting time rages on.[1] I’ve seen various articles that list Arizona as one of several U.S. jurisdictions that have an equal parenting time presumption. A statement that Arizona...

This is the third of four posts about safe haven therapy for children. If the parents intend that their child have safe haven therapy, how is that accomplished?   A written agreement spelling out everyone’s understanding of the arrangement is...

In PO v. JS, the Hawaii Court of Appeals ruled that neither parent can waive or invoke a child’s patient-therapist privilege if the parents themselves are involved in litigation over the child. The Father was attempting to assert the child’s...

NOTE: On March 1, 2018, the Arizona Court of Appeals (Division 1) issued its decision in Nicaise v. Sundaram, which changes the application of Jordan v. Rea and which establishes that courts should not make school choice decisions when parents...

Here’s part 2 of 2 on custody and parenting time myths. Since we argue a lot, sending messages through the children is the best way to communicate. Using your children as a messengers is always a bad idea. It’s harmful...

Here are some custody and parenting time myths most family lawyers hear about and have to dispel.  This is part 1 of 2, the first five:   The kids get to choose who they live with as soon as they...

A Maine court has rejected a trial judge’s attempt to order specific punishment for children if they refused to visit a parent. Violette v. Violette, Maine, July 30, 2015. Because the trial judge felt that Mother was not strict enough...

This is a continuation of the previous post which asks that custody evaluators change some Parenting Plan provisions that cause problems for the parents.  Many of the problems stem from holiday definitions that require the parents to have extra exchanges...

Anyone who’s read this blog knows my favorite thing is to rant about problems I see in Parenting Plans. Most of these are problems that should never have happened to the poor parents and I feel badly that the court...

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