When parents are getting separated, it is really necessary sometimes to revise your parenting plan. You cannot predict your life how it will go after a few years, and parenting plan cannot cover every aspect of life. If you want to put the interest of your children as your first priority, then there is no problem with revising the parenting plan. When you are about to negotiate a parenting plan, both the parents should be on the same page about the changes. If one of the parents is not ok with revisions, then you have to do the negotiation on behalf of your children.

Reasons to Modify:

Most of the time, parents request modifications in parenting plans when the life of children or one of the parents is going to be changed. Every topic in the parenting plan is open to the revision, and even the basic custody schedule is also included in it. It will only happen when you show the court that these changes will benefit your children. Here are some most common reasons to modify the parenting agreement:

• When one of the parents remarries.
• When one of the parents is moving to another City or relocating.
• When one of the parents thinks that they are not capable of raising the children.
• When your children have grown up, and their schedule needs to be changed.
• When your children request you to change the schedule according to his life.
• When one of the parents became unemployed or disabled. 

 Negotiation Techniques:

When you are negotiating a parenting plan, it doesn’t work as a business deal. When you are in the business world, you have to show some flexibility, professional behaviour, and compromise, and these are the same skills that you have to use to work with the other parent. Let’s discuss some negotiation techniques from a business perspective that you can use in the parenting plan:

• When you are negotiating, your mind should be open. Negotiating means you have to give and take. So if you are not opening yourself and not accepting the opinion of the other parent, then these negotiations will be going to fail.
• You have to listen to the opinion of the other parent then you can ask the question that comes to your mind. You have to let the other person know that you are not exactly looking, what he/she is offering, you have your proposal as well.
• During the negotiation of the parenting plan, do not agree on the first proposal. It is a chance that the other parent is expecting you to give the suggestions as well.