No.

Typically, parties participating in parenting coordination have already been through a divorce, and therefore frequently have counsel. However, an attorney is not necessary for parenting coordination.

Parenting coordinators obtain virtually all of their information directly from the parties themselves, or from other individuals with information relevant to the dispute. Parties are certainly not discouraged from having an attorney, but even when they do, the attorney usually plays a very limited role in the parenting coordination process.

Parenting coordinators are not acting as lawyers for either side and are not permitted to provide legal advice. Therefore, a lawyer is sometimes helpful or even necessary to understand more complicated issues. But, in most situations, a lawyer is not necessary or will have very little involvement.