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Your Newfoundland lawyers will help you to prepare ahead of your custody mediation session. Custody mediation will allow you and the other parent to work out agreement for custody and support without the need for intervention from a judge. If the mediation is successful, the judge will review the terms of your agreement and approve it. To ensure that all of your concerns are addressed during the mediation sessions, it is important for you to prepare. Your relationship between you and the other parent will play a role in how custody is decided in your case. Your Newfoundland lawyers can help you create a timeline of your relationship. The timeline needs to include information such as when you and the other parent first met, how long you dated, the date of your marriage. If you and the other parent went to counseling, it needs to be documented on your timeline. Any special events or details that occurred in your relationship should also be included. A parenting timeline is also important. As Newfoundland lawyers will advise you, the parenting timeline needs to cover certain points. Carefully detail how custody was handled in the first six months after you and the other parent separated. If there have been any major changes or adjustments that have occurred in your parenting plan from then to now, note them. Explain why the changes were made. The mediator will review this to determine what did and did not work in your arrangement. The information you provide could become the frame for building a custody arrangement. By this point, you and the other parent are aware of issues that can arise and affect custody. You and your Newfoundland lawyers can use this knowledge to create a sample parenting plan. In fact, you should create at least three plans. In each plan, you should account for where the child lives, extracurricular activities, health care, and other issues that may impact the child. The plan is not guaranteed to be adopted by the mediator and the other parent. What it does is give an idea of what you feel will work. Combined with the other parent's plan, a possibly solid plan can be created. If you have any concerns about the other parent or the whole custodial process, state them. Think about what issues have come up in the past and what circumstances could present a problem for the future. Use these to create a list of concerns. For instance, a common problem that comes up in custodial matters is exposure of a parent's boyfriend or girlfriend to the child. You may not feel it is a good thing to have your child meet the other parent's special friend. Whether or not you aware of it, the other parent may feel the same. You both can set rules and boundaries for if and when a meeting between a friend and the child should occur. You also need to detail exactly what makes your situation ideal for raising a child. Include details about your home, income, and family. Be sure to include any friends or other people that your child will be exposed to your home. If you have special provisions for the child, list them. The mediator will want to know that if the child spends a majority of his time in your home, there are provisions in place to care for him. The other parent will also be scrutinized. If you have concerns about whether or not the other parent has the right provisions to care for the child, note them. Your Newfoundland lawyers can address this during mediation or court if the case goes that far.
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