Parenting Coordination is a unique and relatively new form of alternative dispute resolution that is aimed at families experiencing high levels of conflict after a divorce.

Parenting coordination combines elements of education, mediation, and decision-making by third parties to allow these high conflict families to avoid resolving their ongoing disputes in court.

First and foremost, parenting coordination provides an opportunity to improve communication between the parties by inserting a neutral third party to help guide discussions, provide helpful perspective to allow the parties to better understand the issues, and explore alternatives for resolving disputes.

Then, like mediation, parenting coordination provides a process that give parents the best opportunity to resolve their disputes by agreement, rather than through formal court proceedings.

Finally, parenting coordination inserts the additional element of giving the parenting coordinator some decision-making ability – through either non-binding recommendations for how conflicts should be resolved or through Binding Recommendations which resolve the conflict with much the same effect as a decision by the court.