Parenting Coordination

Separation agreements, court orders and parenting plans, outline decision making and parenting time and holiday schedules in detail, however, there are often small but important aspects that are not included which cause great strife and conflict between parents. Such conflict bodes negatively on children, who need to be unencumbered by the ongoing dispute between their parents. The Parenting Coordinator deals with the enforcement and implementation of the Parenting Plan set out by Court Order or by way of Minutes of Settlement. 

The Parenting Coordinator strives to implement and execute the Parenting Plan so as to ensure that the children are shielded and buffered from the conflict that ensues between their parents. As such, this service is provided and reserved for moderate to high conflict families, where significant conflict still exists despite having a legally binding Parenting Plan in place.

The Parenting Coordinator seeks to fine-tune details such as what happens if a child or parent is sick, or if school is cancelled, exactly when do transfer times take place, how to resolve disagreements such as section 7 expenses and extra-ordinary family events that fall outside the parameters of the Parenting Plans. Parenting Coordination, is a secondary med/arb process which includes elements of structured and methodical guiding, along with facilitating, mediating, and at times, arbitrating.