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"I just want to let you know that your software is great and easy to use. My son’s mom and I don’t agree on much, but we do try to make adjustments to accommodate my son’s many activities. It is great to get my son’s baseball schedule in March, look at my Custody Xchange calendar, and know that what nights in April, May, and June we are going to switch. Thanks again."

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Meriden, CT

The Judge Adopted my Plan

"It can be tailored made to fit your unique schedule with holidays and vacations, plus it breaks the time share down so you can come up with a true shared parenting schedule. It helped me so much and I was pro se against a family law specialist, the judge adopted my plan that I came up with using custody exchange. Thank you so much it was invaluable."

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Arroyo Grande, CA

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"I have used the Custody X Software in some complicated custody cases and have found it a very useful tool. Many people are very visual and the ability to lay out custody schedules years in advance has been helpful. I have found the software very easy to use and would highly recommend it to other family law practitioners."

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Step Parenting

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A step parent involved in raising the children from a spouse's previous marriage has to work to develop and keep a good relationship with the children as well as take care of the details of raising them. If you are a step parent, you know the difficulties and challenges that parenting brings, as well as the rewards. There are many wonderful step parents who selflessly put in the work and the time to connect to their spouse's children. They understand and overcome the unique trials that step parenting brings. These step parents are a stable, positive force in the children's lives. The last thing these step parents need is confusion over when and where the pick the children up, a constant battle over custody with the children's other parent, and the stress and complication of arranging a child custody and visitation schedule.

Fortunately, Custody X Change can help.

Custody X Change is custody software that can help make your custody arrangement easier to handle. This allows you to spend less time fighting with the other parent and worrying about the details of your schedule and to spend more time parenting. Custody X Change lets you set up your parenting plan and custody agreement on your computer. You can enter in your custody and visitation schedule--complete with a holiday schedule, vacation time, and special events--and figure it out in calendar mode. The program also lets you include parenting provisions in your agreement. This means that you can add the joint custody rules into the plan that you want to the other parent to abide by. Along with all of this, the software keeps track of the time-share and overnight percentages that each parent has with the children. This makes it easy to know exactly how much time you have with the kids and to set up a fair arrangement. This number is also crucial in determining child support. The program prints all of this information out into professional documents that outline the complete custody and child visitation schedule (this is in addition to the calendar showing all of the times), the parenting provisions, and a time-share percentage report.

How does this help make step parenting easier? Well, with Custody X Change you take a lot of the hassle out of the custody situation. This allows you to focus your energy on the children and helping to raise them. Let's look at some specific scenarios to see a few ways Custody X Change can help.

Suppose your spouse and the children's other parent are having a hard time keeping track of the pick ups and drop offs of the children. Or maybe they don't even have a solid custody and visitation calendar. With Custody X Change you can easily and quickly create a calendar that clearly shows the times and days that each parent has with the children. You can print this out and give the other parent a copy. This will eliminate the confusion about when you have the children.

Or maybe your spouse is in a renegotiation about the custody agreement. You can get Custody X Change to prepare some parenting plans to present to the other parent. If the parent has some suggestions of change, you can easily put in the changes and see how it looks in the calendar. This saves you the time and frustration of counting days and allows you to experiment with different schedules to find one everyone likes. If the child's other parent isn't cooperative, you can use Custody X Change to prepare for court and mediation.

Let's say your spouse has two children from a previous marriage. Ever since both of you have been married, the children's other parent has been late dropping them off and sometimes even denying visitation. You and your spouse purchase Custody X Change and you put in your custody schedule as outlined in your custody order. Then you create another calendar to document the times the other parent actually gives you the kids. You keep track on the other calendar, and after about a month you have the documentation you need. You can create another parenting plan and make a new custody and visitation schedule that you'd like the court to adopt. You also add in some provisions about being informed when the other parent takes the child out of state or on vacation. You then print out all the documents and file for a child custody modification. When you go to court you are prepared with the original agreement, the actual visitation times, and your new suggestion. As you explain to the court why it is in the children's best interest to have the new agreement you will impress them with your documentation.

These are just a few of the ways that Custody X Change can help step parents. Ultimately, Custody X Change makes your custody situation easier to handle. Download a free trial and find out how it can help you.