What To Consider When Making Parenting Arrangements

"The Family Law Act sets out what matters should be considered, and these will help you to make arrangements for your children or when applying for a parenting order.

Practical issues you should consider include:

-any existing arrangements and if they are working

-how far away you live from each other and how this can affect your arrangements (e.g travel time, transport costs)

-family arrangements with relatives and other people important to the children

-religious and other family commitments your work commitments and those involved in the children’s care

-children’s sporting and social commitments

-transport arrangements for children (e.g pick-ups and drop-offs)

-holidays, birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions

-contact by telephone, email and post

-how to sort out any disagreements about the current arrangements, and how you will change them in the future as circumstances change

-how parental responsibility is to be shared and, if there are more than two or people sharing this, how you will communicate with each other

-your children’s age and developmental stage e.g very young children may benefit from periods of contact that are shorter but more frequent."

A very helpful article about making parenting arrangements. Read more about it HERE.