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Creating Parental Access Plans

By Marcy L. Wachtel
December 27, 2004

Part One of a Three-Part Series

It is quickly becoming a distant memory when standard visitation for a non-residential parent — the parent who does not have primary physical custody of the child — has one dinner during the week and alternate weekends from Friday evening to Sunday evening. We are living in an era where many parents are willing and able to reduce or arrange their work commitments in order to free up more time to devote to their children. And those parents are increasingly rejecting the second-class status of visiting parent with an ephemeral connection to the children, instead desiring to create a second home for themselves and their children.

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