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Parenting Plans and Custody
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Find helpful articles and free court forms related to Parenting Plans, custody, and visitation.
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The information in this article applies to both parties in a divorce or parenting case. There is helpful information about what happens at the beginning, during, and after a divorce or parenting case. We added lots of links to more information and do-it-yourself forms that you can use in Montana Courts.
Learn about your rights when you don't have a Parenting Plan, how to file in Court for one, what happens during the parenting lawsuit, and what happens after the lawsuit.
If you have a Parenting Plan in Montana, and the other parent is not following it, this article will outline 10 steps that you can take when the other parent isn’t following the Parenting Plan, and give tips for representing yourself if you do end up going to court.
Learn how to make an objection, call and question witnesses, introduce exhibits and evidence, and more tips for representing yourself in court.
Information and answers to the common questions grandparents have when they are faced with parenting a second time around.
Find out when you might need a guardianship, what things the court will consider when appointing a guardian, and when a guardianship can change or end.
This article will help you with the court steps and paperwork to register your parenting or custody order from another state to make it enforceable in Montana.
Introduction to Family Law in Montana
Learn about what happens during and after mediation. Learn about what rights you have regarding mediation.
The Montana Kinship Navigator Program serves Kinship Caregivers for the entire state of Montana. The program was founded in 2002 to offer kinship caregivers support, education and access to resources to assist caregivers in raising their children so they can live happier, healthier lives and can, in turn, raise children who know emotional and physical safety, excel in school and social situations and are prepared to take on the challenges of their new life.
Information about Parenting Plans (Youth & Young Adult Legal Issues Edition)
Parenting Plans
Learn what you need to do to change your Parenting Plan in an emergency caused by a natural disaster.
Information about supervised visitation programs for mothers who are afraid of their children's father or were abused by him.
Learn about how to ask the Court to make a decision or take action, and common types of Court Orders during a Dissolution or Parenting Plan case. Find out what you can do if the other party won’t follow a Court Order.
Tips on how to act and what to do at court.
Learn some tips to manage your payments, change your name, tips about taxes, if you move, and what happens if you want to change your Parenting Plan.
Learn what you should know before you file, what happens after you file, and download free court forms for a Petition for Parenting Plan in Montana.
Learn what can do if you are served with a Petition for Parenting Plan. Download a free court form for an Answer to Petition for Parenting Plan.
Common Questions
Information about what to do if you don't have a parenting plan.
Legal Forms
Use a free interactive program to write a Motion for Interim Parenting Plan that you can use to ask the court to set up a temporary Parenting Plan until it orders a Final Parenting Plan.
You can use the interactive Petition for Parenting Plan to create free court forms that you may file in Montana.
Contains forms and instructions to complete a parenting plan in Montana, including interim parenting plans, child support, and mediation.
Download free forms to file with the court when the other parent is not following your parenting plan. Only use these forms if you have a final parenting plan ordered from the court.
Forms and instructions for asking a court to grant guardianship of a minor child.
Download a free write-in-the-blank court form to file a Motion to Amend Parenting Plan when both parents agree to changing the Parenting Plan.
Download a free write-in-the-blank court form to file a Motion to Amend Parenting Plan when the other parent does not agree to changing the Parenting Plan.
You must notify the other parent and the court if you are going to move at least 30 days before you plan on moving. You can use this online interview to complete the forms for a Notice of Intent to Move. This interview will let you create your own Proposed Parenting Plan if your move will impact your child's contact with the other parent.
Use a free interactive program to create the forms to ask a District Court in Montana to make you the guardian for a child under the age of 18.
Download free court forms to file a Petition for Parenting Plan in Montana.
Use a free interactive program to write a Petition to Enforce Parenting Plan to ask a District Court in Montana to hold the other parent in contempt for failing to follow your court-ordered Parenting Plan.
Use this worksheet to gather all of the information you will need when completing the Interactive Petition for Parenting Plan Forms.
Use a free interactive program to create a form to ask a District Court in Montana to decide that Montana should have jurisdiction to enforce a custody or parenting order from another state.
Download a free legal form to register your parenting plan or custody order from another state in Montana. You cannot register a parenting plan or custody order if the case is still ongoing.
Download a free write-in-the-blank court form to file a Response to Petition for Parenting Plan in Montana
Videos
Watch a video to learn how to fill out the Joint Petition for Parenting Plan Form in Montana.
Watch a video to learn how to fill out the Summons for a Parenting Plan form in Montana.
Watch a video to learn how to fill out the Petition for Parenting Plan Form in Montana.
