Sentences with phrase «power of the parenting coordinator»

The arbitration (decision - making) power of the parenting coordinator is limited to disputes about carrying out the parenting plan and other minor parenting issues.

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Therefore, it has created four new and distinct categories of family advocates, with very specific statutory powers: a Child & Family Investigator, a Parenting Coordinator, a Decision - Maker and an Arbitrator.

One of the distinguishing features of Parent Coordination is that the Parenting Coordinator «PC» is often given some decision making power by the court.

In addition, the flexibility of a childcare right of first refusal will give a parenting coordinator unwarranted opportunity to churn time and fees, and an inappropriate amount of power to pass judgment on and meddle with parents» lives and personal decision - making, as well as with the timeshare arrangement itself.]

Depending on the vagaries of the practice from time to time in this or that jurisdiction, parenting coordinators effectively have license to wield heavy authority and extremely biased power, opining back to and influencing judges, bringing issues into the public domain that do not belong there and which were not brought into the case by either party, siding with one party unfairly (even developing personal relationships with one of the parties), and recommending or just ordering the parents to hire the parenting coordinator's own cronies for therapies and guardianships and evaluations.

«If you don't like it, then take it to court» is a dare that can be thrown out cavalierly, because the parenting coordinator role permits these court appointees to hold over the head of objecting parties the power — baselessly presumed to be executed in good faith — to obtain the ear of the judge first, and to poison the well.

One of the distinguishing features of parent coordination, according to Johnston and Roseby, is that the parenting coordinator is given some kind of arbitration power by the court.