Should mandatory Equal Parenting become law how will the following issues be addressed?

Firstly, this is something you can do NOW, with EXISTING legislation.  If you wait for things like the gutted "For the Sake of the Children" legislation to get past the current crowd of Activist Judges, you and your kids will be waiting a long time.

Recall: Trust Terminology applied to a Parenting Agreement constructed as a formal Trust.

You don't have to set up your equal Parenting Agreement as a Trust, but it helps in manifold ways.  After the “death” of the married parents, they “settle” the care of the marriage’s children (and assets for the benefit of the beneficiaries / children) to the “Trustees” – the unmarried parents.  Use “Covenants” and “Wishes” for the Settlors’ binding and non-binding intents on the “death” of the married parents.  Trustees who do not obey the Trusts are removed from the list of Trustees (in effect, loose legal custody, not necessarily physical custody, as in “Friendly Parent Rule”.)

What if one or both of the former spouses re-marries?  Do the Step Parents have Parenting Rights and get involved in the Parenting Agreements?

No, and No!!   What Parenting rights a Step-Parent may exercise are only those LOANED to them by their Spouse, the Natural Parent.

What if an employer transfers a Natural Parent to another city, state or province?

Don't do it.  You have "prior commitments".   If you go without prior arrangements with the remaining Natural Parent, you will forfeit your Parenting Time for at least the current parenting year.  You may be able to work something out in the next Annual Parenting Agreement Supplement .

We adamantly discourage Move-Aways because it separates a Child from one of their Natural Parents and the established family & social network (all the more necessary when their family is disrupted). 

We encourage zero-tolerance of Sole Custodial Parents' practice of contriving a Move-Away to Alienate a Natural Parent, almost always a Dad. 

In the event of a truly necessary Move-Away, we would encourage that the children remain in their familiar environment and maintain their social activities and friends in conformity with the last Annual Agreement.

A critical point of Equal Parenting as we have it set up is that Equal Parents share the decision-making capacity equally.  The Natural Parent moving away has de facto by consent assigned some of their Parenting Time to the Natural Parent who remains and will probably incur the wrath of the corrupt Child Support Tables, but they DO NOT loose any right to make parental decisions.  There has to be good reason to eliminate a parent from Equal Parenting status. 

Again, equality is about status and decision-making, not Parenting Time – although Parenting Time should be about equal in the long haul

What if the family has siblings one which decides to remain with the mother, and the other with the father?

This is sometimes called "Split Custody".  Set this up when you're making the Annual Parenting Agreement Supplements and tweaking the Parenting Timetable it contains.

Kids always have the ability to ask the Timetabled Parent if they can have a sleepover for special events at the other parent’s as an “Ad Hoc” Agreement, but whether or not this change happens is exclusively at the discretion of the Timetabled Parent. 

We encourage cooperation and facilitating a happy life for the kids, but it is always at the discretion of the Timetabled Parent whether or not the change will be made. 

Again, by allowing the child a sleep-over at the non-Timetabled parent’s, the Timetabled Parent looses NOTHING in rank or right.  There is ZERO IMPACT on their ability to function in the future as an equal parent.  This is directly analogous to leaving your kids with a baby sitter or a school teacher. 

Kids do seem to be drawn to male and female parents in some unpredictable alternating pattern to come to some kind of balance of viewpoints over time. The Annual Parenting Agreement Supplements and zero-legal-impact Ad Hoc agreements support this, but we discourage an obvious departure from equal Parenting Time in a given year until a few years after puberty. 

Parents with kids living in 'blended families" will have as many Agreements as there are pairs of Natural Parents.   .... Do keep that simple, please.

What if one of the EPs enrolls the child in an activity without the agreement of the other parent? What about the costs & effects on Parenting Time?

Like the move-away, whoever makes a decision has to take responsibility for the consequences of their decision and bear the costs.  Like any other area of law, the instigator of the disturbance is also required to cease or provide Remedy for the disturbance caused by their decision.  It's probably better not to do it at all. 

By consent, of course, the two Equal Parents can do anything they want in the formal Annual Parenting Supplements of in an Ad-Hoc Agreement. 

We encourage parents to demonstrate problem solving, reason, and fair play.  The current methods of Feminist double-talk, double standards, and bullying  NCPs into capitulation under the fear of greater   Femi-Narcissism has to be named, labeled and and eradicated in the Equal Parenting community..

What if one parent has an RESP (Registered Education Savings Plan) for a Child, but the other does not?  How are the costs for Post secondary education dealt with?

RESP contributions should be planned in the Annual Supplemental Agreement.  In our experience, parents are usually too broken by the Family Law Industry to take asset management and financial planning seriously, but that is not where we want to be.  

We aim to get Family Assets away from the Family Court Industry and into a Trust vehicle for RESPs and housing. 

In view of the trickery used to put into place the Child Support Tables, we don’t accept their legitimacy.  (These are a gross farce, purposed to transfer wealth from men to women.) For the sake of argument, however, we can take the contributions of “support” per child given by the Tables by each parent and use the RATIO of contributions the Tables provides as a basis for determining the RELATIVE contributions of each parent to RESPs (and other provisions) for the children.   

The Family Court Industry can’t sensibly argue with that.  We take the position that these contributions will of course be “Child Support” so far as the Tables go, and are simply allocated for a specific purpose.  Other examples are team memberships, musical instruments, lessons and so forth.  We need to eliminate or minimize the ability of a spendthrift mother to dissipate family assets and children’s inheritance after divorce.

Does Equal Parenting prevent new relationships & children?  How does that work in terms of Child Support.

No, Future relationships and Children are not precluded.  It does bring up the rather GLARING deficiency of the Child Support Tables in that they make NO accommodation for other children of the Payor born before OR afterwards.

The Parenting Time of the NP in a new marriage should probably be diminished in the next Annual Agreement to give the "new relationship’  time alone for a year or two to get established.  This diminishment of Parenting Time in no way diminishes the Status of either EP, and after a couple years the Parenting Timetable will be back to normal. . 

If not between Natural Parents, Sexual Activity around Children is Passive Sexual Abuse, and invites Sexual Predators

We are not impressed with mothers who displace Dad by hooking up with some other man.  Women are now more likely than men to be promiscuous and have affairs while married, BTW.  

This "Step-parent" scenario is the context identified as one of the top three scenarios in which active  Sexual Abuse occurs, and we take a very dim view of mothers moving into this “I need a man” mode. 

Just last night one of our guys reported his problem with his ex. repeatedly having sex in front of his ~6yr old son, and having sex with two or three of the men in her neighborhood.  Mom is evidently promiscuous. 

While Mom was "engaged" in the bedroom, his son and a little girl from the neighborhood started going i trying to copy Mom and her boyfriend in the living room.  We call this Passive Sexual Abuse. 

Don’t expect the Ministry of Children and Families to stop Mom from doing this, though!  They will probably fake up a bunch of False Accusations against Dad to keep Mom doing whatever she wants!  MCF has a long history of making children available for sexual abuse 

In general, however, we reckon unmarried “new relationships” to be a disturbance to the security of the children’s relationships with their Natural Parents, and if you are looking for a Naughty Weekend with your lover, you had best keep the children out of it by not doing it on your Parenting Time, or if you can't control yourself, by leaving the children with the other Natural Parent while you relieve yourself. 

When the child is at a young age how does Equal Parenting affect the child's school if one of the former spouses reside outside of the child's school district?

Again, the Annual Parenting Supplement is the time to lay down the plan for the upcoming year.  Part of that is establishing a “Parenting Community” which hopefully doesn’t change year over year.  By consent parents can do anything, of course, but we would encourage avoiding change if at all possible, from the tentative plan laid out in the initial Equal Parenting Agreement. 

If the “Parenting Community” must change, we would encourage that it change at natural breaks like switches form Elementary School to Middle School, and of course to not make changes until a school year is complete.  This is an example of where having two parents not living together is actually an advantage.  Having Equal Parenting in place provide for more rather than less stability for the children with their social peer group.   Remember a parent who moves away, moves away alone, until the next Annual Supplement or Ad Hoc Agreement makes other provisions, and they do NOT loose their equality of decision making as a result.

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