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  • 04-13-2011, 04:29 PM
    Fancy0613
    When to Schedule a Parent Coordinator Meeting
    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Florida.

    upon other issues, this is my issue at hand. I have a 2 1/2 yr old. The final judgement has A TON of gray areas.

    this particular situation is as follows.

    General break down...Timesharing is set now to were mother has sole and father gets every other weekend. Father gets child for 6 weeks during the summer, mother switches to every other weekend time sharing. It is agreed that during this time sharing, father must have child in daycare while he works. Father lives hour and a half away so she will be switching to a daycare/preschool down near him.

    Problem: Agreeing on daycare. Father is wanting to put her in a religious affiliated (church preschool) daycare. Mother is against the "church" affiliation for daycare. (40 hrs per week)

    This is a case that is followed exact word for word of the final judgment by both parties which makes it very difficult as the wording in the whole judgement gets hairy. There are three different sections which this can fall in and we are not sure which to abide by. Agreeing on anything civilly at this point is absolutely out of the question unfortunately.

    The three sections are Parental Responsibility and Decision making which is 50/50 and specifically mentions pertaining to education.

    Then there is Summer Break Section which specifically words "The father will provide the mother notice of the daycare/program in which HE intends to enroll the child." Here is does not specifically say mother has any say so whatsoever.

    The last section which is minor is the Religious Upbringing which states "each parent may provide religious instruction..."

    In the decision making section, it gives a name of a parent coordinator to contact in the event that parents cannot agree. I guess the main question at hand is, which section applies and is it time to pull in the PC? the shared responsibility? or the summer break section?

    SIGH

    Understand our confusion? Any input helps.
    Thanks
  • 04-15-2011, 07:47 AM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: When to Schedule a Parent Coordinator Meeting
    Mother objects to the daycare because of what? It's a different religious denomination than she prefers? The sponsoring church is different from that in which the parents previously agreed to raise the child? Something else?
  • 04-15-2011, 10:25 AM
    Fancy0613
    Re: When to Schedule a Parent Coordinator Meeting
    There has never been any religion in the child's presence. This or and other denomination and in fact, neither the father or the mother have anything to do with religion. This is the closest daycare to the father's house.

    At this point, the religious part of the situation the mother would probably let slide. She understands the father is allowed to raise her in whichever religious organization he prefers while she is in his care.

    She has not visited the daycare to see if there are any other potential issues (not licensed through the county, no criminal background checks on staff, cleanliness etc) I believe it's the fact that in a whole, she is not able to voice her 50% decision making on this or any other daycare about potential concerns she has.

    He is reading the parenting plan word for word instead of what is best for the child. (In our opinion, 50/50 voice from both father and mother is best to come to a mutual agreement. It also appointed that each parent have that through the shared decision making). He refuses to allow a mutually agreed upon childcare due to the wording in the plan stating "...father is to let the mother know which daycare/organized program HE choses to enroll the child...." Is this a clerical issue and should the father lighten up to hear the mother's opinion or does this need to be brought to the attention of a PC.
  • 04-15-2011, 10:52 AM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: When to Schedule a Parent Coordinator Meeting
    The order as you've quoted it to us doesn't give mom an equal say - it merely requires dad to "provide the mother notice of the daycare/program in which HE intends to enroll the child". We have no access to the order beyond what you've described, but going on that language mom's mere wish that she had a 50% say, despite having no actual objection to the preschool or religious aspect, isn't going to get her very far.

    What opinion does Mom want to share, other than "I wish I had more control when the children are with you, regardless of what our order says"?
  • 04-15-2011, 04:13 PM
    Fancy0613
    Re: When to Schedule a Parent Coordinator Meeting
    It is scheduled for a parent coordinator meeting.

    thank you for the input
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