Legal Disclaimer

Handler Labs LLC is not a law firm and does not practice law. Nobody at CustodyPlan is acting as your attorney. Using this service does not create an attorney-client relationship, and nothing you enter here is protected by attorney-client privilege.

Everything on this site is general information, not advice about your situation. That includes the guides, the state pages, the template wording, the FAQ answers and the exported documents.

Family law differs between states, and often between counties within a state. It also changes. What is standard in one jurisdiction may be unusual or unacceptable in another, and the right arrangement depends on facts about your family that we do not have.

CustodyPlan is an independent product. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, approved by, or connected to any court, judiciary, government agency or bar association. Where we link to a state judiciary website, that link is for your convenience and implies no relationship.

No court has approved or certified our documents. Whether a document is accepted is entirely a matter for the court you file in.

Child support is calculated using state-specific formulas that depend on both parents' incomes and several other factors. We deliberately do not produce a support figure, because doing so accurately would require information and jurisdiction-specific rules we do not handle.

What we do provide is the overnight count and parenting-time percentage that most state formulas take as an input. Take that figure to your state's official calculator or to your attorney.

Our state pages describe general, stable facts: what the document is called, which court hears custody matters, and the vocabulary the state uses. Forms, local rules, filing procedures and fees change regularly, and we do not attempt to track them.

Always check the current requirements with the court where you are filing before you prepare anything final.

The schedule engine is deterministic and tested: given the same inputs it always produces the same overnight counts, and the counts follow the standard convention that a night belongs to whichever parent the child sleeps with.

It cannot tell you whether the schedule you have chosen is appropriate for your children, whether it will be approved, or whether the figures are the ones your particular court or calculator expects. Check the output against your own understanding of your arrangement.

A single consultation to review a completed plan is inexpensive relative to the cost of modifying an order later.

• There is any history of domestic abuse, or any concern for a child's safety.
• There is a substance-misuse or mental-health concern affecting parenting.
• One parent is relocating, or a relocation is in dispute.
• The parents cannot agree and the matter is heading to a contested hearing.
• There is a significant imbalance in bargaining power between the parents.
• Anything about your situation is unusual, or you are simply unsure.

If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services. If you are experiencing domestic abuse, contact a domestic-violence advocate or hotline in your area. This site is not equipped to help with either, and a well-drafted schedule is not a substitute for protection.