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Can Parenting Plan Orders Be Modified as Children and Families Age and Change?

Question: My ex and I agreed on our own parenting plan and incorporated it into our decree, but we felt mutually sometime down the road that it wasn't in our daughter's best interests; could we modify that and have it entered/amended to our decree or taking precedence to our original parent plan schedule? Specifically, will the courts allow us to do this? Or is it once you come up with something it's set in stone for x number of years? Answer: First, it was smart of you and your ex to incorporate your parenting plan into your decree. And it's welcome news to see that your ex and you are willing to revise and change that plan to suit your daughter's best interest as the her circumstances and those of the family change. Second, once your parenting plan is ordered by the court it is not set in stone; it can be amended and modified by the court if you ask. So yes, you and your ex can modify the existing parenting plan have it made a new order of the court. You can change your parenting plan to modify child custody and parent time, decision-making provisions, and any other aspect of your parenting plan, and then have that entered by the court as a new order. The name of this new order is called, appropriately, "order modifying decree of divorce." You don't HAVE to have your new arrangements made an order of the court, but there are many benefits that come from doing so, because if you do something different from what's in the decree for a long time and then one of you decides to stop doing so, there's really not much "precedent" value to or hope in enforcing that.