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Parenting Responsibilities
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- Does it seem as though your other spouse isn't hearing you?
- Is the other spouse disengaged, or only considering what they
want?
- Does it feel as though chaos has taken over your life, or you are
overwhelmed by the process of splitting up?
- Is the other parent putting their needs in front of the children?
- Do either of you have a difficult time understanding how you can
be successful as single parents?
- Do you feel the other parent is trying to take complete control of
the children?
- How will you deal with supporting your children?
- Have you merged your money, and don't know how to unwind it?
- Have you purchased property jointly, and don't have a way of fairly
apportioning its value between you two?
- Do you have children from this relationship, who need both of
their parents?
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Parenting Plan conflicts
At the conclusion of the divorce process, the District Judge or
Magistrate issues Final Orders. For non-parenting conflicts, Final
Orders means Final Orders. There should be no cause for future
conflict. However, the Court that issued the Final Orders retains
ongoing jurisdiction over the case, should an issue arise. The Court can
use its authority to enforce its Final Orders, or it can order the parties
engage in mediation to try to resolve whatever the issue may arise.
It is understood that Parenting Plans will need to be modified as the
children's developmental needs change, or as circumstances of the
parents change over time. An example of this is if a parent remarries,
the biological parents may need to decide how the step-parent will be
involved in parenting. Another example is if one parent's employer has
transferred their job to a different state. Or, it may be that after trying
to work with the original parenting plan, the parents decide it doesn't
work well for the children, and changes need to be made.
Over time, some parents agree to numerous informal changes to the
parenting plan. Eventually, they may can become confused, or fall into
disagreement about what the plan is, because of so many undocumented
changes.
In these circumstances, the Parenting Plan may need to be
re-negotiated to restore structure to the children's lives and sanity to
the parents' lives. Our mediators have completed about as many post
decree mediations as they have initial divorce work, and we are
accustomed to these types of issues.
We recommend that parents have a new Parenting Plan filed with the
Court to help prevent them from getting into future conflict. The Courts
can only enforce what it has accepted and approved. Overwhelmingly,
the courts accept Parenting Plans that the parents agree upon, and that
can be seen to be in the best interest of the children.
Post Decree Conflicts
Non-parenting conflicts
We recommend a new Parenting Plan be filed with the Court to prevent future conflicts.
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Child Support Conflicts
While it isn't supposed to happen, it has been known to happen. One
parent doesn't pay; another parent has lost their job, or has a
significant change in income, or some other circumstance. In
mediation, the parties can negotiate a payment plan to restore a
delinquent parent to a current status. Mediation can restore the lines
of communication, and get things back on track.