Who is responsible for transportation visitation

If the child is invited or desires to participate in any activities which may interfere with the other parent's time with the child, neither parent shall encourage, permit, or consent to such activities without first conferring on this matter with the other parent. If a noncustodial parent fails to arrive at the appointed time and fails to notify the custodial parent that he or she will be late, then the custodial parent need wait for only 30 minutes before considering the visitation canceled.

The custodial parent must give the noncustodial parent as much notice as possible if the child is ill and unable to participate in scheduled time with the other parent. A parent requesting a temporary change to the parenting schedule shall act in good faith and ask the other parent about such change as soon as possible. The parents are expected to fairly adjust parenting schedules when family situations, illnesses, or other commitments make modification reasonable.

If one parent loses scheduled parenting time because of outside events, "make-up" time should be exercised as soon as possible. If the parents cannot agree on "make-up" time, the parent who lost the time shall select the "make-up" time within one month of the missed time. Creating a parenting plan on your own can feel overwhelming. You have to address all possible situations, while using airtight legal language. Use technology to take the guesswork out of the equation.

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The sound of the other parent arriving comes to represent the sound of a mother or father who has come to see you. It's a sign that you are wanted. Before the child has a chance to think about goodbyes, he or she might well have grabbed their backpack and be almost out the door. Being collected is more reassuring for a child, especially a young child, than being dropped off. Another reason for the receiving parent collecting the child ren is to make transport easier. You are also motivated to arrive on time, helping to avoid punctuality and other custody exchange issues.

Your house could be messy and you might have some urgent chores. Some parenting schedules contain short visits with the non-custodial parent. For example, apart from weekends, a visit might be scheduled for 5pm to 8pm every Wednesday. If the non-custodial parent takes care of transport for short visits, the custodial parent, who does most of the parenting, gets some well-deserved time off.

And the non-custodial parent could potentially lessen travel by hanging out locally instead of driving all the way home and back again. The best way to go really depends on the specific situation. A non-custodial parent might be hard-pressed to provide all the transport for a short visit. For that reason, I think the best option is normally to allow the non-custodial parent to decide whether they a want help with the return leg or b would be happy to provide all short-visit transport themselves.

As a child matures, it starts to make more sense for the parent who has the child already to be responsible for transport. The psychological difference being collected or dropped off tends to dissipate.

Kids become more aware that they're just following a timetable. Older children are also less happy with running out the door as soon as a parent arrives.

They'd rather get ready in their own time. Once they're ready, they don't like having to wait for someone. They may even be able to provide their own transport, such as by walking, riding a bike or catching a bus. Around the age of 12 for example, parents may want to shift transport responsibility away from the receiving parent.

Co-parenting arrangements like this can always be changed as long as both parents agree. Where parents live far apart, an idea worth considering is to meet about halfway between homes, say at a cafe or playground. Doing so halves a long journey -- such as by halving a 6-hour round trip for parents who live 3 hours apart.

Of course, each parent also becomes responsible for twice as many trips. For halfway exchanges to work, parents have to be well organized and cooperative. The Mother later moved to New York, but in a consent order was executed in which the Mother agreed to move back to New Jersey, and the Father agreed to temporarily provide transportation to and from his weekend parenting time until the Mother was able to relocate to New Jersey.

The Mother further argued that the trial judge erred in finding that she had not presented sufficient proof of changed circumstances. She alleges that her financial circumstances have changed since she was required to relocate to New Jersey and that her new husband has been unable to sell their residence in New York.

Following the relocation of both parties to Roseland and Ewing, there was no error in establishing a new transportation plan to replace the consent order that temporarily required the Father to provide transportation to and from New York until the Mother moved to New Jersey.