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Another issue that comes up with parenting plans is the “right of first refusal.”

If you have a parenting schedule and one parent is not going to be available during their parenting time, let's say it's Wednesday overnight and the parent is going to be out of town that week, then the right of first refusal means you give the other parent the right to refuse or to agree to care for the child during that parenting time, before you find alternative childcare.

If you can’t get an agreement or the other parent is not unavailable or doesn't want to do it, then you're free to pick anybody to care for the child that you feel would be responsible.

There is also the question of how long must the parent be gone in order to be required to ask the other parent if they want the child during that time.

Will it be that the parent is gone for eight hours?
Or the parent is gone overnight?
What will trigger offering the child’s care to the other parent?

This is something to discuss with your co-parent.

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