Joint Custody Implementation Plan Louisiana

JOINT CUSTODY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

______ JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

PARISH OF

STATE OF LOUISIANA

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JOINT CUSTODY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

NOW INTO COURT, through undersigned counsel, comes , Mover in these proceedings, who proposes to the Court the following joint custody plan for the care and custody of the minor children, and .

1. and shall have joint custody of their children, and , and each parent shall have all rights, privileges and responsibilites as provided by Louisiana Civil Code Articles 146 and 250, as amended, except where those rights, privileges and responsibilites are in direct conflict with the express provisions of this proposed joint custody plan;

2. The mother shall have the right to physical custody of the children during the school year from August through May. During the school year, the father shall have the right to have the children visit with him the and weekends of each month, commencing at o’clock .M. on and ending at o’clock .M. on ;

In addition, the visitation privileges during the holidays shall be alternated by and as follows:

A. The parties will alternate the major holidays consisting of Easter, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Day.

B. The children shall be with their father on Father's Day beginning at o’clock .M. and ending at o’clock .M.

C. The children's birthday shall be alternated equally between the parties.

D. The Father will have visitation for three days during the school holidays that are in excess of one week in duration, which include Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Years;

3. During the summer months of June, July, and August, the father shall have the physical custody of the children between two weeks after school ends and ending two weeks before school begins. During the summer visitation period, the mother shall have the right to visit the children, beginning after the second full weekend after the summer visitation period has begun. In addition the mother shall have the rights to reasonable telephone visitation with the children during this period. The father's obligation of child support will cease during the summer vacation;

4. The father of the minor children will continue to pay () Dollars per month in child support and to maintain the hospitalization policy currently in effect in the two minor children as per The Amended Judgement dated the day of 20 ;

5. Where special holiday and/or birthday and/or vacation visitation and/or physical custody privileges overlap the alternating weekend visitation privileges of either parent, this shall not change the sequence of his or her alternative weekend visitation privileges. The special holiday and/or vacation privileges of either parent will supersede the alternating weekend visitation period privileges of the other respective parent. The respective parent's rights to visitation privileges with and/or physical custody of the child during his birthday period shall supersede all other visitation or physical custody privileges of the other respective parent;

6. The father and mother are obligated to exchange information concerning the health, education and welfare of the child; they shall confer with each other in the exercise of decision-making rights, responsibilities and authority concerning the major medical, dental, institutional, psychiatric or other care and schooling, education, religious and church placements of the child. Each parent has the right to inspect and receive all school, medical and other records pertaining to the child. Both the mother and father shall keep each other informed of their address and phone number and, particularly, the address and phone number of the place where the child shall reside or are staying, at all times;

7. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 6 above, the parent having actual physical custody of the child, whether by visitation or physical custody privileges, at the time of any medical or dental emergency, shall have the sole responsibility for meeting that emergency, and in such emergency the permission of the other parent is not necessary;

8. The father and mother of the children will be responsible for one-half (1/2) of any and all medical bill incurred on behalf of the child that are not covered by hospitalization insurance;

9. Each parent is obligated to notify the other in writing at least thirty (30) days in advance of any move or change of address.

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