As of January 1, 2008, O.C.G.A. § 19-9-1 requires a Georgia Parenting Plan in all cases involving Georgia child custody, except in emergencies or cases of domestic violence. The Georgia Parenting Plan is a comprehensive structure that is meant to lay out all details of GA child custody and visitation arrangements. The types of details it includes are how holidays will be spent, where the child will spend each day of the year, and transportation arrangements for exchanging the child between parents. It also leaves room for parties to tailor their Georgia Parenting Plan to fit their lifestyle.
Parties to a Georgia divorce or other Georgia custody dispute can submit a Georgia Parenting Plan jointly or, if the parties cannot agree, each party can submit his or her own Parenting Plan. If only one party submits a Parenting Plan, the judge can accept that plan without input from the other party if the judge feels that the Parenting Plan is in the best interest of the child.
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Children feel left out in divorce proceedings. Their parents are breaking up and their roots are being shaken to the core. Parenting plan is actually a good way to settle the children with the idea that their family will not be what it used to be.
Parenting plan introduces the child/children to what will happen in the near future. With visitation and custody granted to both parents separately, the child/children will have an idea of what is to come and what will happen.
This is a good way for a child to understand a divorce proceedings.
Things may never be really the same but atleast a child can eventually understand what is happening and the reasons why his/her parents are going to separate.
Nice Parenting Plan.
Parenting plan is actually a good way to settle the children with the idea that their family will not be what it used to be.
Parents know the most about the child and the child’s needs. Parents are also aware of their parenting strengths. The parenting plan should be based on both parents’ strengths in meeting the child’s needs. This guide defines terms and discusses considerations that need to be addressed in deciding the specific details of a parenting plan. The information follows the same form as the Missouri Parenting Plan Guidelines.
The underlying policy of the new laws, according to the General Assembly, is to reflect Georgia’s policy of assuring “that minor children have frequent and continuing contact with parents who have shown the ability to act in the best interest of their children and to encourage parents to share in the rights and responsibilities of rearing their children after the parents have separated or resolved their marriage or relationship.”
In a divorce, children are always being left out most of the times, the decisions always fall on the parents and not to them. In some cases these pushes children to rebel against their parents. Parenting plans is a great way to avoid this happening. Since the child will be aware of what’s gonna happen sooner, there’s also a good chance that they’ll understand things more easily.
Thank goodness for parenting plans! Kids can finally know what their future will hold!