In that last post we discussed why it’s important to keep track of visitation. Here’s the new feature in Custody X Change that makes tracking easy.
The first step is to enter in your custody and visitation schedule. Once you have that completed you can track the visits that have happened. You click on the tracking tab in the software and then you put in a starting date. The program imports your child custody schedule. It’s important to not change your schedule after this because any changes you make in the original schedule will show up as custody deviations in the tracking. This will give you an erroneus report. Here’s what it looks like.
From here it’s easy to track the time. If there was a change in the actual visitation, you merely left click on the day and put in the actual time the visit lasted. You can hold the mouse down and drag to quickly change the time.
In the bottom right corner you can see the updated time-share percentage that each parent has. This will change as your visitation schedule changes.
You can also right click on the day to type in the reason the visitation was changed. This can help you take notes.
You can then print out a report that shows the time-share difference in the scheduled time versus the actual time. You can use this to show the other parent or the court.
If you want to try out Custody X Change, you can sign up for a free 30 day trial and explore all of the features.