Co-Parenting
What is Co-parenting?
Marriages do end, but the parent-child relationship should not. Children naturally want to be with their parents. Co-parenting is parenting as a team, even though you are divorced. When it comes to your children, you will have a relationship with the other parent for many years. A mediated co-parenting plan helps both parents understand their rights and responsibilities going forward.
Child custody and child support are the most obvious agreements to be decided in your divorce. But a co-parenting plan covers the day to day details of life. It should contain all child rearing activities and provide for quality time and quantity time for both parents. The final co-parenting agreement can be as unique as your family. It does not have to be cookie cutter.
The goal in a co-parenting plan is a workable plan to share in the lives of your children as they grow and develop. Mediation provides you with a safe place for difficult discussions, promoting civility, mutual respect and dignity thus producing better outcomes. Mediation can help you build the new foundation for your new relationship as individuals.
Through mediation, you will detail all aspects of your co-parenting plan which will be documented in a mediation agreement called a Memorandum Of Understanding. After your divorce, this document becomes a road map for both parents to follow.
Contact S. M. Edwards & Associates, LLC to find out how mediation can save you time and money.
