Regular Parenting Time Proposal
Start with the ordinary weekly rhythm. This resource helps you think through school days, weekends, overnights, routines, transitions, and the schedule that may best support the children’s stability.
Get Started
Parenting time is often the most emotionally complex part of divorce, and it involves many separate decisions. Some are about the regular weekly schedule. Others are about holidays, transportation, communication, school decisions, medical needs, or questions that should be reviewed by a professional.
The Green Zone helps you organize these decisions one topic at a time.
You do not need to solve everything at once. You can begin with the area that feels most important right now, complete that section privately, and save your written summary. The goal is to help each parent think clearly, generate a written summary that can be exchanged, and work toward solutions that work for both parents without requiring difficult conversations to get there.
These resources are designed to support more organized parenting-time planning, especially when direct conversation is difficult, overwhelming, traumatic, or unproductive.
Choose one topic to begin.
Each resource will guide you through a focused set of questions and help you create a written summary you can save, print, or exchange when ready.
Holiday and School Break Plans
Organize the times of year when the regular schedule may need to change. This resource helps you think through holidays, school vacations, long weekends, birthdays, cultural traditions, and other special days.
Get StartedTransportation Expectations
Clarify how children will move between homes, school, activities, and appointments. This resource helps you organize pickup and drop-off locations, timing, responsibilities, safety concerns, and backup plans.
Get StartedCommunication Boundaries
Create clearer expectations for parent-to-parent communication. This resource helps you think through what needs to be communicated, when communication should happen, what tools to use, and what boundaries may reduce conflict.
Get StartedDecision-Making Topics
Identify which parenting decisions need structure. This resource helps you organize topics such as education, medical care, activities, technology, religion, travel, transportation of children's belongings between homes, and other decisions that may need clear expectations.
Get StartedChild-Specific Needs
Focus on the needs of each child as an individual. This resource helps you think through routines, developmental needs, disability-related supports, emotional needs, school needs, sensory needs, and other child-specific considerations.
Get StartedItems Needing Professional Review
Some parenting-time questions should not be handled alone. This resource helps you identify concerns, unanswered questions, safety issues, legal questions, or areas where an attorney, mediator, therapist, evaluator, or other professional may need to help.
Get StartedYou may complete these resources in any order. Some parents begin with the regular parenting schedule. Others begin with transportation, holidays, or child-specific needs because those feel most pressing.
The written summaries are not a court order or legal agreement. They are preparation tools designed to help you think clearly and communicate in writing.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Divorce decisions are connected. Housing affects budget. Budget affects parenting time. Parenting time affects support. If you are not sure which resource to begin with, the Progression Map Options can help you choose a practical path based on what is most urgent in your real life right now.
Each map gives you an order for moving through the Blue, Green, and Gold Zones so both people can work on the same area at the same time.
View Progression Map OptionsGet the Free Three-Zone Starting Guide
We will email you the Three-Zone Divorce Starting Guide, a short, practical walk through the Blue, Green, and Gold Zones that you can read, save, and share at your own pace.
You will also receive a short series of follow-up emails with more on how Sequential Divorce™ helps you reduce conflict, organize your decisions, and arrive prepared for a mediator or attorney, often at a fraction of the usual cost.
Sequential Divorce™ resources provide informational and organizational tools. They are not legal advice and do not create an attorney-client relationship. Always review divorce-related agreements with a qualified professional in your jurisdiction before signing or filing.