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Build a co-parenting plan
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Most online parenting plan templates are Word docs you stare at for an hour and then close. This one is a guided walk through seven sections, and you leave with a printable, attorney-friendly draft you can hand to a mediator or counsel.
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The seven sections
Every section a good parenting plan has, and what it covers.
- 01
Schedule
Pick the underlying pattern, 2-2-3, 5-2-2-5, 3-4-4-3, alternating weeks, every other weekend, and set the start day, exchange times, and any week-by-week deviations you already know about.
- 02
Holidays
Thanksgiving, winter break, spring break, the kids' birthdays, your birthdays, religious observances, how each one overrides the regular schedule, and whether it alternates year-to-year.
- 03
Exchanges
Where the handoff happens, who drives, what happens if one parent is late, what the kid's overnight bag must contain. The mechanics that make the schedule survive contact with reality.
- 04
Expenses
Which costs get split and how, medical, dental, school, activities, summer camp, clothing, birthday gifts, college 529. Auto-split rules per category, plus the threshold above which both parents must agree before incurring the cost.
- 05
Communication
How parents talk to each other (in-app, text, email, and at what hours), how parents talk to the kids when they're with the other parent (calling, FaceTime, time-limits), and what a "quiet hours" expectation looks like for both households.
- 06
Decisions
Legal-custody decision-making, school, medical, religious, extracurricular. Who decides what unilaterally, what requires consult, what requires consent, and how a deadlock gets broken (third-party tiebreaker, mediation, etc.).
- 07
Review cadence
When the parents will sit down to check whether this plan is still working, every six months, once a year, at the start of every school year. Plus the trigger conditions for an early review (a move, a job change, a new partner involved with the kids).
Once the plan is drafted, drag-paint it into CoFam.
Your parenting plan becomes the schedule both households actually live by, same calendar, same colors, same source of truth.