Category Archives: Custody Agreements
Choosing a Sole or Joint Child Custody Agreement
Is a sole or joint custody agreement the best one for your child and your custody situation? To help you decide, this post looks at the main differences between a sole and joint agreement so that you can see what … Continue reading
Types of Child Custody Agreements
Before making your custody agreement, it is helpful to know the types of child custody agreements that are possible. Here is a brief overview of the types of agreements you can have. 1. Sole legal custody with sole physical custody. … Continue reading
Right of First Refusal in Your Parenting Plan or Custody Agreement
A common custody provision that parents include in their parenting plan and custody agreement is the right of first refusal. By including the right of first refusal in your parenting plan, you guarantee that anytime the other parent needs someone … Continue reading
Temporary Child Custody Agreements
When parents divorce there are a lot of decisions that need to be made quickly. Many times parents must make plans for their children during a whirlwind of activity, and they may not have enough time to really think through … Continue reading
Custody and Visitation Schedules for a Joint Custody Agreement
Have you decided to try a joint custody agreement for your custody situation? You are not alone. Many divorced and separated parents try to put their children first be adopting a joint agreement to raise the children. This is often … Continue reading
Reducing Conflict While Making the Parenting Agreement Part 1
A meeting between divorced and separated parents to talk about the parenting agreement typically goes like this. The parents begin by talking about an issue, let’s say the holiday schedule. One parent makes a suggestion and the other parent doesn’t … Continue reading
How to Get the Other Parent to Follow the Custody Agreement
Some of the most frequent stories we hear are from divorced and separated parents who are trying to follow the custody agreement, but they are having a hard time because the other parent isn’t following it. Is there any way … Continue reading
Custody Stipulation Examples Part Three
In the last two posts we’ve looked at some common custody stipulations that parents include in their parenting plans and custody agreements. Here’s a final post that looks at a few more of those stipulations. 1. Contact between the parents … Continue reading
Sample Custody Stipulations Part Two
In that last post we discussed some of the reasons why parents should include custody stipulations in their parenting plans and we looked at some sample stipulations that parents commonly include. Let’s look at some more sample stipulations that can … Continue reading
Sample Custody Stipulations
It’s important that parents put in necessary custody stipulations in their child custody agreement or parenting plan. Custody stipulations, also called custody provisions, provide rules and principles for the parents to follow as they raise their children. Parents can put … Continue reading
Parenting Provisions
Parenting provisions are an important section in a custody agreement, but oft times they are completely or partially neglected. That could spell disaster for the parents down the road. What exactly are parenting provisions? Parenting provisions are what’s left over … Continue reading
Joint Child Custody: Pros and Cons
Joint child custody occurs when parents share legal or physical custody of their child. Parents can share joint physical custody (where the child lives with each parent for a specific time period), or joint legal custody (where the child lives … Continue reading
Vacation Time!
It’s the middle of summer…so if you haven’t already thought about your vacation, now is the time to do it. There are a couple of ways to include vacation time with your child in your visitation schedule. At the beginning … Continue reading