In the parenting coordination process, the parents hire a parenting coordinator and sign a parenting coordination agreement that outlines their rights and responsibilities to each other and the scope of the parenting coordinator's services and authority. When a problem implementing the parenting plan comes up, one of the parents <span class="noglossary">will</span> contact the parenting coordinator and the parenting coordinator <span class="noglossary">will</span> get to work. First, the parenting coordinator <span class="noglossary">will</span> try to work out a solution by finding consensus, like a mediator. However, if the parents can't reach an agreement resolving the problem, the parenting coordinator <span class="noglossary">will</span> make a decision resolving the dispute, like an arbitrator.

Parenting coordinators are family law lawyers and mental health professionals who are hired for lengthy terms of between six to 24 months. Lawyers who work as parenting coordinators have to have practised as a lawyer for ten years and have additional training in parenting coordination, arbitration, mediation, family violence, and the power dynamics involved in dispute resolution processes. Lawyers who are parenting coordinators <span class="noglossary">will</span> usually advertise that they also provide those services. More information about the training requirements for parenting coordinators is set out in the [https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/support-and-resources-for-lawyers/act-rules-and-code/law-society-rules/ ''Law Society Rules''], Part 3, Division 4. More information about parenting coordination is available at the website of the [http://www.bcparentingcoordinators.com/ BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society].