Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and this is a great time to flex your co-parenting muscles, get a tune-up, or seek further advice or assistance if necessary.
If you are the parent celebrating Mother’s Day with the children, you should ideally have a consent order or parenting plan that specifies the arrangements, including the hours you’re having with them. This would also be a wonderful opportunity for you to start value-based traditions with your children in your home, which could include a meal with them, and to start making family memories with photographs of the day that you can frame and hang for the children to see.
If you are the parent not spending the day with the children, you should share their enthusiasm for Mother’s Day and encourage them to make or buy a card or gift for their mum. Talk positively about the other parent in the lead-up to the special occasion, and never say anything negative or disparaging to the child about the other parent.
It is always best for the children to be able to experience what children in non-separated families experience, with value-based family traditions that are positive and loving and they can remember for ever.
We at TML Family Law recommend discussing and confirming any agreements well before the day, and we can help guide you in how to raise these matters and provide options for negotiation and entering into a binding agreement.
DISCLAIMER: the information contained above does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should seek legal advice in relation to any particular matter you may have before relying or acting on this information.
TML FAMILY LAW
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