Maximizing Your Success as a Parent with Custodial Time STAFF
PICK  Posted about 4 years ago 17 helpful votes    Exercise all
your time, plus more  If you go to court for a review of your
custodial situation, the Court will be more interested in what
the parents actually are doing, than in what any prior court
orders say they should be doing. Use all your custodial time
that you are financially and physically able to use. If you can
accommodate the other parent's scheduling by offering to have
the child(ren) with you, more than the order says you "must", do
it. This is not "baby-sitting", it is spending time with your
kids.   Exercise your rights (and responsibilities) beyond the
time-share: Education  There is more to parenting than whose
house your child sleeps at, on which nights of the week: Request
scheduling information about all your child's school functions,
and attend them whenever possible. Whether or not the other
parent provides you with copies, take independent steps to
arrange with your children