What does a Parenting Coordinator do?

• Provide education and coaching in communication strategies, conflict resolution and anger management;
• Mediate on-going disagreements and conflict, ultimately treaching them how to make decisions toegether and reduce conflict;
• Work with parents to reduce children’s exposure to conflict.

How Does Parenting Coordination Benefit our children?

By embracing what you learn by engaging with a parenting coordinator, you can greatly benefit your children. Having an amicable co-parenting relationship with the other parent can result in children who:

• have a more relaxed home atmosphere, allowing them to adjust to post separation arrangements or changes in arrangements;
• Are less stressed due to reduced parental conflict;
• are more confident and have greater self esteem.

How Do I benefit?

• You will learn skills regarding anger management, communication and conflict resolution skills and children issues during divorce;
• Reduce conflict with the other party;
• Greater compliance with Orders or Parenting Plans and less conflict surrounding those.

How Much does it cost?

• Parents will usually share equally in the cost of all communications with the Parenting Coordinator;
• Our costs for PC can be found on our fees page.
• PC can reduce and often eliminate much of a lawyer’s involvement that often occurs with ongoing parental conflict, saving the parents time and money.

Carmel is a trained Parenting Coordinator and a member of Parenting Coordination Australia (PCA) who is based in Townsville.