My daughter is going to be two in January, her Father and I are currently getting divorced. I had a restraining order on him but I recently took it off, as his mother tried her hardest to make it hell for me. She was cutting my daughters hair, with out permission from me or her father. Buying my daughter clothes and writing her full name on the back where anyone can see it. Anyways he and I are trying to work out parenting time, he wants our daughter three weekends in a row, and then I get her one, then he gets her three again. Plus he wants her six weeks in the summer and Spring break every other year. I work full time and he goes to college. He says he should be getting a job soon but I am unsure if that’s true. I don’t think our daughter is old enough to stay with him that long of a period. He wants to be able to take her out of state to see his dad sometimes who has been in prison plenty of times. I don’t know what to do. I am so afraid for my daughters safety but at the same time he is her father and I don’t want to be unfair…does anyone have any ideas? I mean I can understand when she is older that he will want her to stay for a week, but she is just too little…some one please help me!!
I found this site to be helpful, but am also having difficult figuring out a parenting plan for us. http://www.ojd.state.or.us/osca/cpsd/courtimprovement/familylaw/parentingplan.htm Scroll to the bottom and it will give you sample ideas for parenting plans, there are other links that open up pdf forms for the parenting plans to make them unique for your unique situations.
Unfortunately I am on the opposite side of the issue as you. I have been the primary parent for almost 8 years for our son and 2 1/2 for our daughter. They have seen very little of their dad and I am finding it hard to write a plan that feels fair to me when I don't find it fair for me to let them go at all. Jessica