Guides for separated parents
Practical tips for everyday life and legal guidance to help you understand your family arrangements.
Practical tips for everyday life
Custody calendar, holidays, expenses, documents, communication: simple methods and real-life examples, with free tools.
How does shared custody work?
How shared residence works in France, and how to prepare handovers, belongings and useful information between two homes.
Shared custody calendar: how to get organised
Build, check and keep a custody calendar up to date, with a reference date, precise handovers and confirmed exceptions.
Week on, week off custody: building the schedule
A sample week A / week B schedule: choosing the start date, setting the handover day and time, and planning the school holidays.
How to share the school holidays
Prepare the dates, the mid-holiday handover, journeys and belongings to share the school holidays between two homes.
How to manage expenses between separated parents
A practical method to agree on purchases, file receipts and track each parent’s share and repayments for the children’s expenses.
How to communicate better with your ex about arrangements
Practical tips for writing everyday messages to the other parent: the facts, a precise request, then a confirmation.
Organising your child’s belongings between two homes
A short checklist for school, activities, clothes and useful items when your child moves between homes, without overloading the bag.
Which documents should separated parents share?
Organise the documents needed for school, activities and travel, with a method to identify the current version and limit access.
Co-parenting app: what is it for?
Find out what a co-parenting app is for and how to try one with a week of custody, an expense and a document.
WhatsApp or a co-parenting app?
Choose between a chat and a structured organisation tool, depending on your needs: custody calendar, finding documents, tracking expenses.
How to avoid misunderstandings about the schedule
Full dates, clear proposals and confirmations: a method to reduce misunderstandings about custody changes.
How to organise Christmas when parents are separated
Plan the dates, handovers, journeys and belongings for the festive season with a practical checklist for Christmas between two homes.
French family law guides
Clear explanations of French family law: parental authority, where children live, child support. Written from official sources, each with the date it was last reviewed.
Organised co-parenting: creating reliable routines across two homes
Organised co-parenting relies on shared information, explicit decisions and predictable routines around the child. This practical method helps create those reference points without confusing day-to-day organisation with legal advice.
Parental authority in France
What French parental authority covers, who exercises it after a separation, and which decisions require both parents to agree.
Where the child lives
Alternating or primary residence, who decides, what the judge looks at, and how much the child's own view actually counts.
Child support in France
What it is for, how the amount is set, how long it is owed, and what happens when it is not paid.