What Happens In A Parenting Plan & Timesharing Evaluation?
Interviews: an evaluation will include a series of interviews. Parents should expect to talk to an evaluator alone, with the other parent and with the children. An evaluator will give each parent the opportunity to present their issues and concerns regarding the children as well as concerns regarding each other. Conferences with both parents allow the evaluator the opportunity to assess parents’ capacity to co-parent. The evaluator will probably also schedule joint interviews with each parent and the children as well as with the children alone, depending on their ages. These meetings will allow evaluator to observe the relationships between family members. These evaluations require that both parents be involved in the process. Be cautious of taking the children to their own separate evaluator. Courts may consider these evaluations to be incomplete. One sided evaluations may be a duplication of time and money and may subject are children to added stress. Information gathering: The evalu
