A parent coordinator helps resolve disputes, manage conflict, and improve communication skills with parents. By reducing the conflict and teaching co-parenting skills and as a result the parenting coordinator may promote better parent/child relationships. A parenting coordinator may meet individually with each parent, together with both parents, or with the parents and children together.
A parenting coordinator may be court appointed either voluntarily/by agreement or if the Court believes that it is in the best interests of the parents.
A parenting coordinator may be appointed when
1.) The parties fail to adequately cooperate and communicate with regard to issues involving their children, or have been unable to implement a parenting plan or parenting schedule
2.) Mediation has not been successful
3.) The appointment of a parenting coordinator is in the best interest of the child or children involved in the proceedings.