Parenting agreements
Following a divorce or relationship breakdown, any animosity and conflict between parents could have a detrimental impact on your children. It is crucial for your child that they have a positive relationship with both parents. For this to be possible, a parenting agreement is often recommended.
Also known as a shared parenting plan, a parenting agreement details how the parenting of the child will be carried out on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that their daily life is healthy and safe. Factors stipulated in a shared parenting agreement usually include:
- Living arrangements – who the child will live with, spend time with, including other important family members such as grandparents
- Financial arrangements including school fees and trips
- Healthcare
- Religion
- Education
At Owen White Catlin, we have the experience needed to ensure that any parenting agreement is best suited to the child’s welfare. and will provide the practical guidance to allow you to decide on a parenting agreement which will support co-parenting moving forward.
Our approach is realistic and pragmatic, as we know that the welfare of the child involved is paramount and every family is unique.
We are members of Resolution, and, as part of our commitment to preserving clients’ family relationships, we encourage less confrontational routes to resolution than the court can provide.
Alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, offers a quicker, more cost-effective, and constructive way of agreeing on future arrangements. This is particularly helpful where children are involved. We offer mediation and our mediators are registered with both Resolution and the Family Mediation Council.
We pride ourselves on being transparent and clear on our fees which means you’ll know exactly what your costs will be.
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