Can You Delegate Your Parenting Time To Someone Else?

How do families spend time together on the weekends? The short answer is it depends, and it’s none of your business. In one family, the whole family commits to doing chores all day on Saturday and then goes to the park on Sunday and picks up dinner from Raising Cane’s on the way home, but they probably have a lot more financial stability than you do. In one family, Dad works all weekend while Mom stays home with the kids, and in another family, it is the other way around. In your family, both parents work seven days per week, and on the weekends, the kids stay with whichever relatives or neighbors happen to have the day off. In obscenely rich families, the kids are away at overnight summer camp while Dad complains about Mom to his golf buddies and Mom complains about Dad to her fellow boozy book club members. For divorced parents with court-ordered parenting plans, the court order determines which parent is in charge of the children on which days, but it does not micromanage you about what you do during your parenting time. If you are determined to exercise your parental rights even though circumstances such as your work or your health do not enable you to spend many weekends at Chuck E. Cheese with your kids, contact a Birmingham child custody lawyer.

Father Tries to Maintain Child’s Connection to Family Amid Divorce and Incarceration

Parents unofficially delegate their parenting time to other people all the time. Your kids might spend less time with you during your parenting time than they do with their grandparents or stepparent simply because of the realities of work and sleep. This is not the same thing as the court ordering supervised parenting time; it is just life.

The courts have ruled on matters where a parent was genuinely unable to exercise his or her parenting time for several months, or even several years, because of military deployment or incarceration. In one instance, the court kept the father’s parenting time intact while he was stationed overseas in the military. His oldest son instead spent the father’s parenting time with his stepmother and half-siblings, as he had done when his father was home.

In another case, the criminal court sentenced a divorced father to three years in prison for financial crime. The prison only allowed visitation on one Saturday per month, but before his sentence, the father had spent one weekend per month with his son; the father’s parents were often also present. Since the child was three years old, the father did not think it was in the child’s best interests to visit him in prison. Instead, he asked the mother to bring the child to the grandparents’ house during the father’s scheduled parenting time. The mother and the court had no problem with this; the only complicating factor was a procedural one, namely whether the grandparents were a party to the legal case.

Contact Peeples Law About Co-Parenting in Interesting Times

A Birmingham family law attorney can help you exercise your parenting time even when you cannot be physically present with your children.  Contact Peeples Law in Birmingham, Alabama today to schedule a consultation.

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