Parenting Coordination (Court Order Required)
Assisting High-Conflict Parents in Implementing Parenting Plans
Parenting Coordination is a child-focused dispute resolution process designed to assist parents in implementing court-ordered parenting plans, reducing conflict, and improving communication. Parenting Coordination is often recommended when parents experience ongoing disagreements that interfere with effective co-parenting and negatively impact their child.
The Parenting Coordinator works as a neutral professional who helps parents resolve day-to-day parenting disputes, improve communication, and promote compliance with court orders.
What Is Parenting Coordination?
Parenting Coordination is not therapy, mediation, legal representation, or custody evaluation.
Rather, Parenting Coordination is a structured process designed to help parents manage conflict, resolve disputes, and make child-focused decisions within the framework established by the court.
The Parenting Coordinator helps parents develop practical solutions while promoting accountability and adherence to court orders.
Who May Benefit From Parenting Coordination?
Parenting Coordination may be appropriate when:
Common goals include:
Parenting Coordinators frequently assist with:
Parents are expected to:
The duration is determined by the court order and the family’s needs. Some families require several months of assistance, while others benefit from longer involvement.
Who Makes Final Decisions?
The Parenting Coordinator helps facilitate agreement whenever possible. Depending on the court order and applicable law, the Parenting Coordinator may make recommendations to the court or exercise limited decision-making authority as permitted by the appointment order.
Assisting High-Conflict Parents in Implementing Parenting Plans
Parenting Coordination is a child-focused dispute resolution process designed to assist parents in implementing court-ordered parenting plans, reducing conflict, and improving communication. Parenting Coordination is often recommended when parents experience ongoing disagreements that interfere with effective co-parenting and negatively impact their child.
The Parenting Coordinator works as a neutral professional who helps parents resolve day-to-day parenting disputes, improve communication, and promote compliance with court orders.
What Is Parenting Coordination?
Parenting Coordination is not therapy, mediation, legal representation, or custody evaluation.
Rather, Parenting Coordination is a structured process designed to help parents manage conflict, resolve disputes, and make child-focused decisions within the framework established by the court.
The Parenting Coordinator helps parents develop practical solutions while promoting accountability and adherence to court orders.
Who May Benefit From Parenting Coordination?
Parenting Coordination may be appropriate when:
- Parents experience chronic conflict.
- Communication frequently breaks down.
- Parenting plan provisions are repeatedly disputed.
- Parents struggle to make joint decisions.
- Children are exposed to parental conflict.
- The court identifies a need for additional support and structure.
Common goals include:
- Reducing parental conflict.
- Improving communication.
- Promoting compliance with parenting plans.
- Resolving disputes efficiently.
- Supporting child-focused decision-making.
- Reducing children’s exposure to conflict.
Parenting Coordinators frequently assist with:
- Timesharing disputes.
- Exchange-related issues.
- School-related concerns.
- Medical and mental health decisions.
- Extracurricular activities.
- Communication difficulties.
- Interpretation of parenting plan provisions.
Parents are expected to:
- Participate in good faith.
- Communicate respectfully.
- Follow court orders.
- Focus on the child’s needs rather than past relationship issues.
- Consider recommendations and guidance offered during the process.
The duration is determined by the court order and the family’s needs. Some families require several months of assistance, while others benefit from longer involvement.
Who Makes Final Decisions?
The Parenting Coordinator helps facilitate agreement whenever possible. Depending on the court order and applicable law, the Parenting Coordinator may make recommendations to the court or exercise limited decision-making authority as permitted by the appointment order.