Btw..would love feedback before mediation: our draft parenting plan says that we will attempt to come to consensus on all child-related issues (education, religion, health), and that if we can't come to agreement we will go to a neutral third party before taking it to court.
That seems so ridiculous to me. Obviously we will always try to come to an agreement. But in the event we don't, we have to come back to mediation??
What have others done?
Claire, I don't have anything legal in my sich, but I don't see this as a bad thing. In fact, I see it as protecting your from H's potential unreasonableness. Let's say that you put your D in a private school because your local public school is the pits (just for example, not saying it actually is). Then after three years, in the middle of the year, H decides he wants her moved. No matter how you beg and plead, he won't budge. A mediator would say that you have to at least leave her there until the end of the school year, and then help you figure out what to do for next year. Hopefully, it would never come down to that, but it's nice to know the procedure if it does.
