WHAT IS A PARENTING PLAN? A WHICH GUIDE SHOULD I USE? WHERE CAN I GET A COPY Parenting Plan is a document that is The description that follows should OF THE GUIDE? used when you and the other parent help you decide which publication of your child are not living in the same is right for you. 1) You can check with your local circuit house. A Parenting Plan states when court clerk to see if hard copies of the your child will be with each parent Guides are available (there maybe a fee and how decisions will be made. charged by the court for hard copies of the Guides). WHY WOULD I WANT A THE BASIC PARENTING PLAN PARENTING PLAN? Having a GUIDE. This guide includes: 2) You can download and print copies parenting plan provides parents with $ an introduction to the parenting off the web using your own computer specific details about the time they plan process Go to the OJD Family Law Website at: share with their children and who is $ a list of questions a parent can ask responsible for important decisions. to get started http://courts.oregon.gov/familylaw $ a chart showing ages and stages Oregon law requires parents (married of development of children and or unmarried) to file a Parenting Plan sample schedules 3) You can use a computer and printer with a request for a divorce or child $ a fill-in-the blank form with at your local library or legal aid office to custody order. In addition, a parenting instructions download the documents you want. For plan may help you meet the requirement $ A fill-in-the-blank long distance form information on legal aid offices near you, of an agreement in writing if you intend with instructions go to the following website: to use the “parenting time credit” in $ a resource list of books and other materials calculating child support. $ a glossary of words and definitions. THE SAFETY-FOCUSED www.oregonlawhelp.org HOW CAN I GET HELP TO PARENTING PLAN GUIDE. (Click on “Find Legal Aid Offices” link) CREATE A PARENTING PLAN? Available in English or Spanish. For There are two parenting plan guides a parent who has safety concerns WHO CREATED THE GUIDES? The about parenting time (see other side Office of the State Court Administrator, that have been developed to assist of this brochure), this guide contains divorcing/separating parents. The three different parenting plans: Court Programs & Services Division materials will help you create a plan • Option A with supervised visitation and the Oregon Judicial Department’s that fits your family’s unique needs • Option B with unsupervised-no State Family Law Advisory Committee and your child’s age. The Basic overnight parenting time (SFLAC), through the work of the Parenting Plan Guide also tells • Option C with unsupervised- SFLAC Parenting Plan Outreach you about other places where you overnight parenting time Workgroup. can get help to create your parenting plan. DO I NEED A SAFETY FOCUSED PARENTING PLAN? The list below Additional family law information is can help you decide. available on the Oregon Judicial Department’s Family Law Website: Has the other parent: http://courts.oregon.gov/familylaw • acted as though violent behavior toward you or your child is OK in some ■ Parent Divorce Education situations? Programs • damaged or destroyed property or pets during an argument? • threatened to commit suicide? ■ Family Law Facilitation Programs WE CAN $ pushed, slapped, kicked, punched or physically hurt you or your child? ■ Family Law Forms for: HELP YOU $ had problems with alcohol or other • Divorce drugs? • Separation CREATE YOUR $ needed medication to be safe around • Custody/Parenting Time others? Enforcement PARENTING $ threatened not to return or not returned • Modification your child? PLAN $ used weapons to threaten or hurt • Co-Petitioners people? • Fee Waiver $ threatened to kill you, your child or • Non-disclosure A publication of the anyone else? and more Oregon Judicial Department $ sexually abused anyone?

$ been served a protection or no-contact ■ Downloadable brochures, guides http://courts.oregon.gov/familylaw order? and flyers with information about $ been arrested for harming or family law, parenting time threatening to harm you or anyone else? enforcement, and more If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may need to use a ■ Links to other services that Safety Focused Parenting Plan. provide assistance to divorcing/ separating parents, such as the Contact your local domestic violence Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer center for additional help. Referral Service, the Division of This brochure is available in alternate Call 888-235-5333 for a referral. Child Support, and Legal Aid formats upon request. For additional offices information, please contact the Office of the State Court Administrator, Court 4-08 Programs & Services Division at (503) 986-5611.