Co-parenting that works on your own

Free custody schedule tools, and — soon — an app that keeps two households in sync. It works even if your co-parent never joins, and you can export everything, free, forever.

Free tools

• Parenting time calculatorOvernights and percentages for any rotation
• Custody schedule calendarsA full printable year for any rotation
• Parenting plan templateA complete blank plan to read and print

Guides

• Parallel Parenting: How It Works When Co-Parenting Does NotParallel parenting explained: what it is, when it beats co-parenting, how the schedule and the communication channel are written, and how parents move back toward cooperation later.
• Co-Parenting Boundaries: What to Put in Writing and What to Let GoCo-parenting boundaries that hold: which ones belong in the parenting plan, how to answer a message that crosses one, what to do when a household ignores one, and how they differ under parallel parenting.
• The Co-Parenting Calendar: A Schedule Both Households Can FollowHow to build a co-parenting calendar: choosing a rotation, settling holidays years ahead, what overnights do and do not change, and how two households keep one calendar in sync.

Your state

• Parenting time and child support in CaliforniaHow California guideline support uses parenting time, the state form a parent fills in to set out a schedule, and what to write down before filing.
• Parenting time and child support in ColoradoHow Colorado reads parenting time into child support, where the statewide parenting plan form lives, and what changed when the old overnight test was struck.
• Time-sharing and child support in FloridaThe Florida time-sharing figure, why it is a share of the year rather than a night count, and the state parenting plan form every Florida case needs.
• Parenting time and child support in IllinoisThe Illinois shared parenting overnight count, how the statewide standardized parenting plan works, and how to write a rotation precise enough to count.
• Parenting time and child support in OregonWhy Oregon gives a parenting time credit from the first overnight, how daytime blocks count, and where the state child support parenting time worksheet lives.
• Parenting time and child support in VirginiaThe Virginia shared custody day count, why a Virginia day is not an overnight, and the court forms a parent files to establish custody and visitation.
• Parenting time and child support in WashingtonWhy Washington has no numeric parenting-time trigger, what the residential schedule deviation actually turns on, and where the mandatory parenting plan form lives.
• Parenting time and child support in MichiganHow the Michigan parental time offset reads overnights into support, the state court order that records a parenting-time schedule, and what to write down before it is entered.
• Parenting time and child support in OhioThe Ohio 90-overnight support reduction, the statewide parenting plan both parents sign, and how to write a schedule precise enough to be counted.

Custody schedules

• 2-2-314-night cycle · 6 handoffs
• 2-2-5-514-night cycle · 4 handoffs
• Alternating Weeks14-night cycle · 2 handoffs
• 3-4-4-314-night cycle · 4 handoffs
• 2 Weeks Each28-night cycle · 2 handoffs
• 4-37-night cycle · 2 handoffs