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In the parenting coordination process, the parents hire a parenting coordinator and sign a parenting coordination agreement that outlines their rights and responsibilities to each other and the scope of the parenting coordinator's services and authority. When a problem crops up, one of the parents will contact the parenting coordinator and the parenting coordinator will get to work. First, the parenting coordinator will try to work out a solution by finding consensus, like a mediator. However, if the parents can't be helped to reach an agreement, the parenting coordinator will impose a resolution to the dispute, like an arbitrator. | In the parenting coordination process, the parents hire a parenting coordinator and sign a parenting coordination agreement that outlines their rights and responsibilities to each other and the scope of the parenting coordinator's services and authority. When a problem crops up, one of the parents will contact the parenting coordinator and the parenting coordinator will get to work. First, the parenting coordinator will try to work out a solution by finding consensus, like a mediator. However, if the parents can't be helped to reach an agreement, the parenting coordinator will impose a resolution to the dispute, like an arbitrator. | ||
Parenting coordinators are family law lawyers and mental health professionals who are hired on a long-term basis, usually for six to twenty-four months. Lawyers who work as parenting coordinators have to have | Parenting coordinators are family law lawyers and mental health professionals who are hired on a long-term basis, usually for six to twenty-four months. Lawyers who work as parenting coordinators have to have practised as a lawyer for ten years and have additional training in parenting coordination, arbitration, mediation, family violence, and power dynamics in dispute resolution processes. Lawyers who are parenting coordinators will usually advertise that they also provide those services. | ||
More information about the training requirements of parenting coordinators is available at the website of the <span style="color: red;">Law Society</span>. More information about parenting coordination is available at the website of the <span style="color: red;">BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society</span>. | More information about the training requirements of parenting coordinators is available at the website of the <span style="color: red;">Law Society</span>. More information about parenting coordination is available at the website of the <span style="color: red;">BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society</span>. | ||