Parenting plans and draft orders

When your firm has parenting documents switched on, each saved proposal on the Parenting tab has two downloads under Documents:

• Parenting plan (Word): a plain-language plan in the parents' own voice, with signature and date lines for both parents.
• Draft orders (Word): draft parenting orders by consent, with definitions, decision-making, where the children live and spend time, changeovers, school holidays, special occasions, communication and general orders.

The schedule is written from the proposal, for example "from Friday of week 2 (after school, or 3.00 pm if it is not a school day) until Sunday of week 2 (5.00 pm)", along with the holiday and special-day rules. Save any changes first: only saved proposals can be downloaded.

Both documents start with a draft for a lawyer to review notice. They are a starting point for you to check and adapt, not a finished document to file or give to the parties.

Your firm's wording

A firm admin can change the standard wording in Settings, then Parenting:

• the changeover times used in the schedule (weekday start and end, and the weekend time)
• the notice at the top of each document
• the orders around the schedule: decision-making, communication, the general orders (one per line) and which arrangement applies when they overlap
• the parenting plan paragraphs: the introduction, decisions, communication and review

Use {{client}}, {{other}} and {{children}} in your wording. In orders they become "the mother" or "the father" (or the parent's name) and "the children" or "the child". Use the standard wording puts a clause back to the default.

Downloads are recorded in Activity.