Co-Parenting: A Guide For Texas Parents
Last updated on August 13, 2025
Reaching an agreement with your child’s other parent about how you will raise your children now that you are no longer together is perhaps one of the most challenging issues that a parent can face. Children can suffer in situations involving parenting plans, child custody and paternity disputes if both parents refuse to prioritize the children’s needs.
Co-parenting can be especially difficult if your divorce case is headed to court. At Meredith Clark Law, our founding attorney, Meredith V. Clark, has experience both as a litigator and as a family law practitioner. She combines these two threads of her legal career to assist clients in co-parenting in a manner that is fair to everyone: especially the child. To this end, she also helps develop co-parenting plans that are fair and equitable and will withstand a judge’s scrutiny when presented in court.
How An Agreement Helps With Co-Parenting
Depending on your case, some of the basics of a co-parenting agreement may emerge as your court case proceeds. A strong co-parenting plan, once completed, will provide an overview of how you and your child’s other parent will care for your children. Some significant elements to be addressed in a co-parenting plan will include:
- When your children will spend time with each parent on a regular basis
- How to handle custody or visitation during vacations, holidays and breaks from school
- How both parents will make day-to-day decisions as well as more major decisions related to their children
- How the children’s financial and medical support will be supplied
- What will happen to the parenting agreement if one parent moves out of town or out of state
- How you and your ex will resolve future parenting conflicts without going to court
Another option to consider, particularly in high-conflict divorces, is crafting a parenting plan that focuses on parallel parenting. In this parenting approach, the parents have the least amount of interaction possible. Our co-parenting lawyer can advise you about how these agreements operate and counsel you on whether this is a viable option for your individual circumstances.
Explore Your Co-Parenting Options
You do not have to try to figure out parenting plan issues by yourself. Having a dedicated, caring, aggressive divorce litigator on your side can make a huge difference. Contact our office by filling out our online contact form or by calling 832-301-0191.