Common Contracts

SAMPLE

October 12th, 2007

• Filed
  October 12th, 2007

in order to better meet our parental responsibilities and to safeguard our child(ren)’s future development. We both recognize that our child(ren) wish to love and respect both of us, regardless of our marital status or our place of residence, and that the welfare of our child(ren) can best be served by our mutual cooperation as parents in shared parenting, and by each of us providing a home in which they are loved and to which they belong. We also jointly recognize that court proceedings regarding child(ren) and custody and access matters can be detrimental to child(ren), and we therefore have decided to resolve these questions ourselves, using this Shared Parenting Agreement. Finally, we have chosen to avoid the traditional terminology surrounding divorce and child(ren) by using terms that more accurately describe the reorganization of our former family to new homes or dual households. Accordingly, we wish to instruct our respective attorneys, if necessary, to inform any courts involv