Parent Communication Provision Examples

You can pick and choose from these provisions about communication between parents to include in your parenting plan.

These example provisions are flexible. You can include parts of them or alter the wording to fit your situation. You can also write additional provisions for your plan.

Check your location's custody guidelines to find out if your plan must include certain provisions about parent communication. Your plan can have extra provisions along with the required ones.

You'll find many more provisions in the Custody X Change parenting plan template.

Topics of communication

If you find yourselves disagreeing about appropriate topics of conversation, set specific boundaries.

• The parents will not communicate about topics unrelated to the child.
• The parent who first learns of a school assignment or assessment must inform the other parent in a timely manner if the child will need to work on or prepare for it when the other parent cares for the child.
• Each parent must get the other's approval before scheduling, encouraging or consenting to activities for the child that occur during the other parent's parenting time. This applies to activities like health appointments, work shifts, and time with friends, but not to repeating extracurricular activities like sports practices.

Etiquette for communications

When it's hard to speak directly with the other parent about a specific issue, a professional who specializes in an alternative dispute resolution method can help you negotiate. The two of you can also work on improving your direct communication.

• All communication between the parents must be respectful.
• The parents must not use the child as messenger between them.
• Neither parent may record video or audio of the other parent without first receiving consent from the parent to be recorded.

You can customize this to fit your situation with Custody X Change.

Response time

If phone calls may happen too often or not often enough, write a plan to clarify what reasonable phone contact means for you.

• Each parent must respond to questions or requests within __ days of when the other parent sends or shares them.

You can customize this to fit your situation with Custody X Change.

The easiest way to make a parenting plan

Creating a parenting plan on your own can feel overwhelming. You have to address all possible situations while using airtight legal language.

Use technology to take the guesswork out of the equation. The Custody X Change app walks you through each step of creating a plan.

For provisions about parent communication, you'll work mostly in the app's "communication between parents" category. It includes the provisions you see above, plus many others.

You can customize this to fit your situation with Custody X Change.

The result will be a professional document that demonstrates your competence as a parent and secures your child's future.

You can customize this to fit your situation with Custody X Change.

The easiest and most reliable way to make a parenting plan is with Custody X Change.