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custody agreement question....

what was most important to you to have in your custody agreement?

Re: custody agreement question....

  • Well my situation was a little different because XH was on drugs.  What was most important to me was that I have full physical AND legal custody.  I would think about all things, such as visitation, holidays, overnights, etc.  You may want to map out something with your attorney to see if it sounds reasonable.
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  • Also some other things ...

    Transportation

    Exchange- what time, if parent doesn't show up in X minutes then  other parent can proceed with other activities

    What parent has to provide for child while the child is away.

      Airplane travel, Out-of-state and foreign travel,

    School Designation,

    Communication- Between parents/ between parent and child, Who pays for cost of communication,

    Child Care, Child Safety- NO Guns in the House/Etc, 

    Medical Cost,

    Who can file him as a dependant on income tax/ Who keeps the money, 

    Religious issues,  Child Support, 

    If supervised visits who will pay-where will the supervised visits happen, Cost of supervised visits,

  • I think it all depends on your STBXH and what type of guy he is.  Mine is pretty straight forward.  Holidays, visitation days, vacation time, joint custody...that's about it.  But my EH is pretty normal as am I so no need to get into transportation, lateness, travel, etc. b
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  • A long term plan.  Similar to achase, my XH has some mental health and substance abuse issues.  I wanted a plan that increases visitation duration with time and as DS gets older.

    Also consider that what makes sense for your child now, may not make sense as they get older.  For example, it wouldn't make any sense for XH to choose one of his week long visits during the school year when DS is older, so I added specific verbiage to address this, even though it's years from now. 

    Include every detail you can think of in the agreement and don't leave anything open for interpretation.

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