Custody Exchange Calendar

Custody exchanges can be a daunting task for some co-parents, especially if they are in a high conflict relationship with one another. Discussing about pick up and drop off times can be challenging when the both of you can’t seem to agree on anything. The actual pick up and drop off of your child can be a prime time for you or your co-parent to spark up an argument. If this is your case, or if you even just want to keep your custody exchanges organized, consider using a custody exchange calendar.

Why is a custody exchange calendar necessary?

Using a custody exchange calendar can greatly help co-parents to keep their custody exchanges, and essentially their entire shared parenting, organized and all in one place. The following are a few ways that a custody exchange calendar will be able to help you with your custody exchanges.

• The pick up and drop off times are accurately defined in the calendar whenever there is a swap between you and your co-parent.
• The pick up and drop off times are easy to make. When you or your co-parent is making a new schedule, the custody exchange calendar will automatically require that you input the pick up and drop off times whenever it is indicated that there is an exchange between you and your co-parent.
• The custody exchange calendar acts as accurate and truthful documentation. If you or your co-parent does not show up at pick up or drop off, it cannot be argued because you can simply consult the calendar to find what the pick up and drop off times were.
• You and your co-parent, and even your children, are able to view the same custody exchange calendar so that the entire family is on the same page.
• By utilizing the calendar for scheduling and defining the exchange times and dates the physical contact between you and your co-parent is drastically reduced, which lessens the chance of any conflict between the two of you. Conflict can be dangerous to the health and wellbeing of your children.

A custody exchange calendar can help to protect your children

If you are in a high conflict relationship with your co-parent it is important to keep conflict to a minimum around your children. Exchanges are not to be held at your home or your co-parent’s home. This can be a recipe for disaster. It can give you or your co-parent the opportunity to bring up some touchy subjects like school, child rearing, or child support. A custody exchange calendar can help you to keep this contact to a minimum. Almost everything that needs to be know by either co-parent like exchange times and important events can be seen by everyone on the calendar.

The OurFamilyWizard website® has an amazing child custody calendar, which can help you with all of your custody exchange problems and so much more. To learn more about the custody exchange calendar and all of the other tools that the OurFamilyWizard website® provides please visit the Divorced Parenting page.