Category: Parenting and Co-Parenting

Parenting arrangements fail more often on implementation than on principle. Two parents can agree a schedule and still be in conflict a year later over handovers, school events, medical decisions and the hundred small questions no agreement anticipates.

This section deals with recording arrangements properly and making them work: what a parenting plan should cover under the Children’s Act, whether it binds, how it is registered or made an order of court and how it is amended, and what a parenting coordinator can and cannot do when high conflict outlasts the agreement.

The language throughout is care and contact, the terms the Children’s Act uses, rather than custody and access.

Grandparents’ Contact Rights in South Africa: What the Courts Actually Say

Do grandparents have a right to see their grandchildren? What section 23 of the Children’s Act requires, and how South African courts have decided.

Grandparents, Aunts and Other Caregivers: When Should They Be Included in a Parenting Plan?

Grandparents and other relatives often carry real parenting work. How to record their role in a parenting plan, and when the law requires more.

Mediation for a Modern Generation: What Millennial and Gen Z Co-Parents Actually Want

What younger co-parents want from mediation in South Africa: clear fees, realistic timelines, family-shaped outcomes, and where mediation stops.

What a Parenting Coordinator Can and Cannot Do: A Practical Guide for High-Conflict Co-Parents

Home / Insights / Parenting and Co-Parenting Parenting Co-ordination · Family disputes What a Parenting Coordinator Can and Cannot Do: A Practical Guide for High-Conflict Co-Parents A parenting coordinator is an independent professional appointed by court order or by agreement to help separated parents implement an existing parenting plan or court order. The role covers […]

Parenting Plans in South Africa: Binding Agreements, Registration and Court Orders

Draft, signed, registered or made an order of court? What each stage of a parenting plan means in South Africa, and how to word it well.