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Ways to Make Visitation after an Orlando Divorce Easy

Here are ways to make visitation after an Orlando divorce easiest:

Make sure you are extremely specific in your parenting plan and final judgment. You do not want to go have to go back to court to fight over who has the kids for Halloween. You laugh. I kid you not. An attorney friend of mine had to go to court for that.

Make sure you are very detailed in your regular time sharing schedule. State the day, date and time that time sharing begins. State the day, date, and time it ends.

Specify your time sharing for all the holidays the same way. Orange and Seminole county have the school calendars on line. You can use them as a guide for school breaks. Specify whether the regular schedule, or the holiday schedule trumps, if there is an overlap.

Make sure you include special provisions, if your child travels for sports. You need to specify that the parent who has the child will take the child to the sporting event. You need to include that this applies even if the event is out of state or country; or that the other parent must switch time sharing with you in order that you may take the child to the sporting event. You do not want to have to go to court in order to allow your child to go to a tournament.

If your family always has a family reunion every year on a certain week, then make sure that goes in your parenting plan, holiday schedule and final judgment.

If you are very religious and the other parent is not, the other parent may allow you take a certain holiday because it is important to you. Make sure that goes in the parenting plan.

The time to perfect your time sharing schedule is at mediation. If there is some day, date or time that is special to you, make sure it is spelled out with specificity in the parenting plan.

The Mother gets Mother’s Day. The Father gets Father’s Day. You may put in the parenting plan that you have the child on your birthday. You usually rotate the child’s birthday with one parent having even years and the other having odd years. You can rotate the other holidays that way, or you may split the holiday breaks with one parent getting the first half of the break and the other parent getting the other half. You flip that the next year.

Make sure you give each parent one or two consecutive weeks in the summer in order that you can take the child on vacation. You want to include a date in the parenting plan as to when you must notify the other parent as to which weeks you are exercising that time. For example, by May 1st each parent will notify the other they are utilizing their 2 weeks on this date.

Make sure you put in the parenting plan whether you can take the child out of state and out of the country and how far I advance you must notify the other parent. Specify that the other parent must provide the travel itinerary, the contact numbers, the flights, etc. be specific as to what is required.

If you have further questions regarding custody evaluations in the Orlando Florida area, you can call Ann Marie Gilden, Esquire at Ann Marie Giordano Gilden, P.A. at 407-732-7620 and set up an initial consultation.

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