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Court
News Ohio
Guide
Assists in Developing Parenting Time
By Bret Crow
October 23, 2012
By
publishing the "Planning for Parenting Time: Ohio's Guide
for Parents Living Apart," the Ohio Supreme Court hopes it will help
parents living apart reduce conflict and plan parenting time.
The
Ohio Supreme Court has published a guide to help parents
living apart reduce conflict and plan parenting time.
The
genesis for “Planning for Parenting Time: Ohio’s Guide for
Parents Living Apart” came from a 2005 report of the Advisory Committee
on
Children, Families and Courts, said Steve Hanson, section manager. The
report
recommended that developmentally appropriate guidelines for parenting
plans
should be developed and available for use by all families and courts.
He
said elements of the guide were borrowed from a similar report
published by the Arizona Supreme Court and adapted for Ohio. Lake
County
Domestic Relations Court Judge Colleen Falkowski led a work group of
the
Subcommittee on Family Law Reform Implementation that revised the guide.
“The
beauty of the Ohio guide is that it’s child-centered,” Hanson
said. “It looks at parenting time from the child’s perspective and how
parents
and the courts can create a situation that’s most beneficial for the
children.”
Consistent
with the 2005 recommendations, the Ohio guide provides
guidelines for parenting time schedules. The guide offers customized
options
and ideas to structure parenting time based on the child’s age, the
level and
civility of the parents’ interaction and the daily schedule parents and
children maintain.
Each
of Ohio’s domestic relations and juvenile judges and legal
aid organizations will receive copies of the guide, Hanson said.
The
guide contains at least 20 different parenting time options
with sample schedules, tips, and pros and cons of using each option.
The guide
also covers how to handle holidays, vacations, and school breaks as
well as
modifying plans to account for long-distance parenting and relocations.
View
the interactive guide, which allows users to produce
age-appropriate parenting time schedules.
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