Consequences of agreeing that the court should not rule on parent-child contact in a divorce judgment

The court in the divorce judgment is required to decide on contact with the child of that parent who will not live with the child permanently. However, the parties can, by mutual consent, ask the Court not to decide this, as the parties will agree between themselves, the will of the spouses is then fulfilled. The parties must submit a parenting agreement, a so-called parenting plan, setting a contact schedule or stating that contact will be established by the divorced parents on an ongoing basis. It should be remembered that a parenting agreement is not a court judgment, and therefore its provisions cannot be coercively enforced. It is therefore safe to establish contact with the child in the divorce judgment.

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