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Parenting coordinators are family law lawyers and mental health professionals who are hired on a long-term basis, usually for 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 power dynamics in dispute resolution processes. Lawyers who are parenting coordinators <span class="noglossary">will</span> usually advertise that they also provide those services. | Parenting coordinators are family law lawyers and mental health professionals who are hired on a long-term basis, usually for 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 power dynamics 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 of parenting coordinators is set out in [http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/page.cfm?cid=334&t=Law-Society-Rules | More information about the training requirements of parenting coordinators is set out in the Law Society [http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/page.cfm?cid=334&t=Law-Society-Rules Rules], Part 3, Division 3. More information about parenting coordination is available at the website of the [http://www.bcparentingcoordinators.com/ BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society]. | ||
To find out more about parenting coordinators, see [[How Do I Hire a Parenting Coordinator?]] It's located in the ''How Do I?'' part of this resource, within the section ''Alternatives to Court''. | To find out more about parenting coordinators, see [[How Do I Hire a Parenting Coordinator?]] It's located in the ''How Do I?'' part of this resource, within the section ''Alternatives to Court''. |