
Dr Bowen’s Response: What’s a Parenting Plan
Recently updated on April 18th, 2025 at 11:40 pm
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What’s a Parenting Plan
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Hi! My name is Dr. Deirdre Bowen. I am a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. The information that I am about to provide to you should be taken as just that: information and not legal advice. One of the things that you may have come across in doing initial research about the dissolution of your marriage or your domestic partnership, is something called a parenting plan. A parenting plan is a document that you and your spouse will fill out and addresses how you and your spouse (or former partner) will parent your children together going forward. That document includes things like where the children will live; how long the children will stay at that particular location; what holidays will be spent where; what decisions will be made regarding school, healthcare, outside activities. These are all things that you and your former partner can decide and fill out together.
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Hola, mi nombre es Dra. Diedra Bowen. Soy una profesora en la Escuela de Leyes de la Universidad de Seattle. La información que estoy a punto de proporcionarte debe tomarse como eso, información y no como un consejo legal. Una de las cosas que probablemente te has encontrado durante tu investigación inicial acerca de la disolución de tu matrimonio o emparejamiento doméstico es algo llamado un plan de paternidad. Un plan de paternidad es un documento que tu y tu pareja llenarán y gestiona cómo tú y tu pareja (o expareja) criarán a sus hijos juntos de ahora en adelante, ese documento incluye cosas como: ¿Dónde vivirá el niño? ¿Durante cuánto tiempo se mantendrá en esa ubicación en particular? ¿Dónde pasará cada vacación? ¿Qué decisiones se realizarán con respecto a la escuela, cuidado de la salud, actividades al exterior? Estas son cosas que tú y tu expareja pueden decidir y rellenar juntos.
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