Parent Coordination - Post Divorce Parenting Issues

If you are a divorced couple with children, your relationship doesn’t end with your final divorce decree and the court ordered dissolution of your marriage. While you are no longer married, you remain parents to your children and your responsibilities to them continue. Unfortunately, some parents forget this and issues surrounding the parenting plan, child custody and the New Jersey child support arrangements surface, leading to conflict between the parties and unnecessary stress for the children. This is where post divorce parent coordination can help.

For couples who used divorce mediation to peacefully and efficiently resolve all the issues surrounding their divorce, it is likely that you designed a detailed parenting plan, agreed on a child custody arrangement and properly calculated the New Jersey child support guideline amounts so that your continuing interactions as parents are focused where they should be: on your children. But if you did not do all of these things and you now find yourselves needing assistance with resolving these issues as your children get older, you’ll want to employ the services of a New Jersey mediator. Parent coordination will help get you back on your current parent plan or will help you to revise your parenting plan to meet your current needs.

About 10% of the clients we see at Equitable Mediation Services are couples seeking to use mediation as a means to peacefully settle post divorce issues involving their children. Common areas of concern for parents after divorce include:

In each of these cases, mediation is your best option for resolving the differences between you as parents and avoiding the expensive and contentious process of going to court and litigating your differences. You are still mom and dad and your responsibilities to your children will never end, so you owe it to them to use mediation to peacefully resolve your differences for their benefit.

Should you have any specific questions regarding parenting plans in general, child custody arrangements, parenting plan issues post divorce and the New Jersey Child Support guidelines in your particular situation, please contact us and we'd be happy to schedule a free, no obligation consultation to discuss how mediation and post divorce parent coordination can help you.