Child Visitation Agreement Template | PDF or Word Doc
The Custody X Change visitation agreement template makes it quick and easy for you to create a parenting schedule and parenting plan.
First, you'll create your regular visitation schedule, which you'll follow on typical days.
Then, you can create schedules for special situations, like summer break and holidays.
This all feeds into your parenting plan, where you can also add parenting rules. Custody X Change has more than 140 preloaded provisions for you to use as-is or personalize.
In the end, you'll have a PDF or Word document free of loopholes. It will serve as a strong base for the years of co-parenting ahead of you.
Start filling out the Custody X Change template now.
Creating visitation schedules in Custody X Change
The Custody X Change online app helps you explore and build visitation schedules.
It provides templates for the most-popular schedules, such as:
Plus it helps you build schedules from scratch.
The app also uses templates to help you quickly enter how parents will share holidays.
In the end, you'll have a thorough visitation schedule — or even multiple options — to present to the other parent or the court.
Choosing a child visitation agreement template
When you choose a visitation agreement template, look for one that:
- Offers popular visitation schedules for you to work from
- Allows personalization
- Creates a professional-quality document with clear wording and visuals
- Lets you export to Word (for more editing) or PDF (to share a final product)
See whether your jurisdiction or your judge provide any requirements for a visitation agreement. They may even provide a template. These templates tend to be very simple. You can attach a more thorough agreement to round it out.
It's generally a good idea to have a lawyer look over your agreement to make sure you've completed it according to your court's standards.
What goes in a child visitation agreement
Here are the usual elements of a child visitation agreement (which you may also hear called a parenting plan or time-sharing agreement).
At the top, put the basic information about your case:
- The parents' full names and roles in the case (e.g., petitioner)
- The children's full names and birth dates
- The case number
- The case location
Then you should have information about:
- Legal custody
- Physical custody
- The visitation schedule
- Parenting rules
- How parents can make changes to the agreement
At the end, put a space for each parent to sign and date. You might also need space for notarization, depending on your court's requirements.
The Custody X Change template walks you through adding all of this to your visitation agreement.
Visitation agreement template for sole custody
An agreement for sole custody states early on which parent will have sole legal and sole physical custody.
Next it lays out the details of a visitation schedule for sole custody.
Here's an example of a sole custody visitation agreement made with Custody X Change:
Visitation agreement template for joint custody
Usually, the term visitation refers to time a child spends with their noncustodial parent. An agreement for joint custody would generally be known by another name, such as parenting time agreement or time-sharing agreement. However, many people still use the term visitation agreement informally.
For a joint custody agreement, start by explaining how parents will share joint legal custody.
Then, state that they'll have joint physical custody, and include a joint custody schedule.
Here's an example of a joint custody agreement made with Custody X Change:
