Affection and Respect Clause Samples

Affection and Respect a. Husband and Wife agree to respect each other as co-parents and for each of them to have an active role in providing a moral, social, economic and educational environment for the Children. b. Husband and Wife both recognize the importance of the Children spending time with one another and will be flexible around the Children’s schedules. c. Neither parent shall conceal the Children’s whereabouts from the other parent. d. The Children will keep the current surname and not make a change, at least until the Children are eighteen years of age and old enough to make that decision for themselves. e. Husband and Wife will advise the other parent where the Children can be reached in the event of emergency. Neither party shall refuse nor neglect to inform the other of his or her address and phone number while the Children are in his or her care. f. Neither parent shall consume alcohol or illicit drugs while in the presence of the children.

Affection and Respect. Each party shall exert every effort to maintain free access and unhampered contact between the Child/ren and other party and to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ affection and respect between the Child/ren and the other party. Neither party shall do anything that would estrange the Child/ren from the other party, that would injure the opinion of the Child/ren as to the other, or that would impair the natural development of the Child/ren's love and respect for each parent. Further, each party is restrained and enjoined from making any comments about the other party in the Child/ren's presence that in any other way diminishes the love, respect, and affection that the Child/ren has/have for either party.