I just wanted to let you know, we skipped mediation in my case and just agreed to things between us, but I am looking at the joint legal custody agreement (which is a standard state form), and the part about trying to agree on these issues before taking them to a neutral third party is on there as well, and looks to be the "standard".I'd pick your battles, and you know your H better than us. Is he really likely to argue with you on school, healthcare and religion? If you think that would be relatively rare, I would save the "pushback" for other items.
That's just me, I guess I am pretty comfortable with this particular piece because STBX has always been pretty passive about these areas. Heck, I doubt he could name our pediatrician.
