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Parents can agree arrangements, and courts strongly prefer agreed arrangements to imposed ones. But no agreement puts custody beyond the court's reach: the test applied is the welfare of the child, and arrangements can be revisited as circumstances change. Draft the plan as the parents' considered proposal — well thought through, workable, and demonstrably in the child's interest — and it is very likely to be respected.
What a workable parenting plan covers
- Where the child lives, and the regular pattern of time with each parent — set out as a schedule rather than as a principle
- Handover — times, places, and who does the travelling
- School holidays, festivals and birthdays, which is where most disputes actually arise
- Schooling — which school, who pays, and who signs
- Medical decisions, routine and emergency
- Travel, including consent for travel abroad and custody of the passport
- Communication between the child and the non-resident parent, and between the parents
- Relocation — what happens if one parent needs to move
- How the plan is reviewed as the child grows
"Reasonable access" is the phrase that generates the most litigation in family matters. Alternate weekends from Friday evening to Sunday evening, half of each school holiday, alternate major festivals — a plan that a third party could operate without interpreting it is a plan that survives a bad month between the parents.
Where a matter is already before the Family Court, the plan is normally placed before the court as consent terms rather than left as a private agreement. Family Court matters →
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Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Details of the children, their ages and schools
- Both parents' addresses and working patterns
- Any existing court order or interim arrangement
- A note of what has been agreed so far
- Passport and travel details where travel abroad is contemplated