Parenting Coordinator 101: What You Need to Know About Their Role and Benefits
Hi, I’m Clint Hastings. I’m a Tulsa fathers’ rights attorney. Today is the first part of a series of videos I’m making about parenting coordinators. What is a parenting coordinator? Well, let’s just look directly at the statute at the definition. In the statute, it says a parenting coordinator means an impartial third party who is qualified under certain detailed qualifications that’s in another part of the statute, which we’ll talk about, but is appointed by the court to assist parties in resolving issues and deciding disputed issues.
Now, for the most part, really the powers of the parenting coordinator that are most important is to help the parties communicate. A lot of parents after a divorce or a heated paternity case or anything like that have a lot of trouble communicating. So let’s say every time they text, it gets blown up into some kind of argument. Well, a parenting coordinator can help you with that because they will monitor some text of yours or allow parties to give them what texts are happening, and then the parenting coordinator can set out recommendations of how to fix the problems. And at some point, those recommendations can become an order of the court, and we’ll talk about how that happens too. But in general, parenting coordinator can be very helpful to your case and solve a lot of problems.
How Can a Parenting Coordinator Benefit Your Case?
It is an additional cost. However, what I tell a lot of clients is you’re probably saving on a lot of costs for your Tulsa paternity attorney to pay your attorney down the road by using a parenting coordinator to solve some of the issues for you. And hopefully, a lot of times, those become permanent solutions that the parties can implement. In the following series of videos, we will talk more about the parenting coordinator and how to get them, what they cost, all the details. Stay tuned. Thanks, and thanks for listening.
