Drafting Parenting Orders | Introduction

This is a series of blogs designed to assist you to understand and draft the different sorts of parenting orders that you might be asking the court to make. The examples that we will give you are the sort of orders that could be sought in an application for consent orders, or in a disputed matter.

A good set of parenting orders should cover the following issues:

• Decision making
• If a child is going to live in an equally shared care arrangement, what does that look like?
• If a child is going to live primarily with one parent, which parent will that be and on what days and what time will the child spend with the other parent?
• Communication between the child and the parents
• Time on special days
• Arrangements for school holidays
• What information each parent will receive about the child and how
• Whether any restraints are required.

We will cover each issue in detail and give you different scenarios so that you can choose the one that best suits your child.