I was cruising the web and found a site that supports non-custodial parents visitation rights. The site listed 10 of the most common ommissions that can lead to bitter disputes with custodial and non-custodial parents. For some reason I deleted 2, but here are 8 of them:<p>1. No specific parenting schedule.
For obvious reasons, this does not work.<p>2. No provision of access to or sharing of medical and school records. THis should allow for non-cus-par to gain access to all important records of child without having to go through custodial parent.<p>3. No provision for discussion prior to any geographic moves...careful...this could backfire if pushed, but something to think about<p>4. no provision for domestic and overseas travel and travel restrictions...Good one. OW can't be ugly about travel plans that include child as long as there is a provision in the agreement. Take for instance, as long as it's within allotted time frame, she can't do anything about it...if we travel we can let her know 24 hours before or during travel plans etc..<p>5. No provision for future elective medical or dental treatments...if it's an elective treatment, the xow should receive permission for treatment from non-cus-par. If she does not, then she accepts full financial obligation. This encourages working out big, non-covered bills.<p>6. No provision for potential impact of loss of employment of disability...if job is lost, then perhaps lower the day care costs by switching, or forget the horse back and piano lessons???<p>7. No provision on method to handle future disputes and expenses. How to handle the inevitable disputes??<p>8. No provision for changing parenting time schedules with age of the child.<p>Just some things to ponder if you and your s have decided to include the child in your life. Just another way to include the child without drama from mama.
