Do You Have to Let Your Ex Know Your Physical Address When Co-Parenting?
No matter how ugly your breakup with the other parent of your children is, the family court has seen worse. While parenting blogs tend to tailor their advice toward co-parents who are still on speaking terms, even though they may deeply resent each other, the courts must handle situations much worse than anything that can be solved by advice intended for a general audience. Minor children have a legal right to an ongoing relationship with both of their legal parents; the court only restricts this right in extraordinary circumstances, when a continuation of the relationship presents an obvious risk to the child’s physical safety. When necessary, the court will order parents to engage in parallel parenting, where each parent exercises his or her respective parenting time, but otherwise, the parents do not interact directly with each other. It might order the parents not to talk to each other by phone, but instead to use a co-parenting app such as Our Family Wizard, which archives the parents’ messages, so that they can use them as evidence in court, if necessary. If your relationship with your ex-spouse is so hideous that even the greediest gossip hounds would find it disturbing instead of entertaining, contact a Boca Raton child custody lawyer.
Co-Parenting After Domestic Violence
Domestic violence against your ex does not automatically deprive you of your parenting time with your children. If the court issued a protective order keeping you away from your ex, it will redact your address, as will the parenting plan it enters after issuing the protective order. The parenting plan may order you to have a third party transport your children, or your weekend custody may start when you pick up your children from school on Friday afternoon and last until you drop them off at school on Monday morning. If there is reason to do so, the court may restrict you to supervised parenting time, but it revisits the supervised parenting time decision every six months.
When Your Ex Is Being Shady by Not Letting the Court Know Her Address
Having an unstable housing situation does not automatically deprive you of your right to parenting time. Your ex still has the right to parenting time if she lives with housemates on a month-to-month lease or if she lives with relatives in another state. If your ex is failing to disclose her address to the court to avoid being served with papers to appear in court, though, whether in regard to your co-parenting case or to another matter, you can petition the court to hold your ex in contempt of court until she provides her address. This may or may not cause the court to modify the parenting plan; it depends on the children’s best interests.
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A South Florida family law attorney can help you draft and follow a parenting plan, even if your ex-spouse is a train wreck and your relationship with your ex is a dumpster fire. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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