What is a parenting plan? – Patterson Bray PLLC

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A parenting plan in Tennessee is for children of divorce in which a court is going to lay out the day-to-day parenting schedule. It will also lay out who is going to make decisions about the children’s future. And those are the major decisions, not just the day-to-day decisions such as the education of the children, the religious upbringing, the extracurricular activities, and the non-emergency healthc care decisions for the party’s children. That can be a joint decision or a court can award one

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of the parties as being in charge of making those major decisions about the children’s upbringing. The other thing that’s included in a parenting plan in Tennessee is the award of child support. courts use the Tennessee child support guidelines to calculate that child support and then that will also be incorporated into the parenting plan order so that everything that involves the children from the until they are 18 in Tennessee is in some order that explains where they’re going to be on a

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day-to-day basis and who’s making decisions about their care while they are still minors.