How do you handle custody disputes during a divorce?

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In Tennessee, once you have filed a complaint for divorce, if you and the other parent can agree on a temporary basis as to what the day-to-day schedule is going to be with your children, who’s going to be making decisions about non-emergency healthcare, education, those sorts of things, you can enter with the court a consent order that lays out those specific things. If you cannot agree, you can petition the court for what’s called a temporary parenting plan. And the court will consider both

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you and the other parties proposals as to what is in the best interest of the minor children during the divorce process. And you’ll submit a proposed plan that lays out between now and the divorce. Here’s going to be the weekly schedule with the children. Here is going to be the holidays that each parent will get with the minor children. an amount of temporary child support that will be paid during the pendency of the divorce and who’s going to make major decisions about the children

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during the divorce. The good news about all of that is that it is a temporary order. A lot of parties get concerned that once they agree to a temporary order, they are locked in place permanently with those restrictions. That’s not necessarily the case. The court can revise a parenting plan that is temporary up until the date of the final decree without it being the same standard as revising a custody order once the divorce is finalized.

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