PARENTING CHECKLIST
- Goals of parenting after separation
- Decision making for education, medical treatment, religious upbringing
- Schedule for children
- Weekdays/nights and weekends (Regular school year)
- School vacations
- Holidays (e.g. Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter, Palm Sunday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Halloween, others)
- Special days (e.g. children’s birthdays, parents’ birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day)
- Jewish Holidays (e.g. Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah)
- Special Agreements
- Pick up and return
- Child care arrangement
- Sick days – School in service days
- Payment for college
- Education and health information about children
- Consistency between homes
- Labels for Custody
- Other
- Missed Visits
- Notice
- Reimbursement for expenses incurred
- Evolving Parenting Arrangements
- Parent moving away
- Step-Parents – Blended family
- Growing older
- Children’s future
- Regular Reviews
- Decision-Making and Parent Meetings
- Meet and confer
- Mini evaluations
- Required mediator