The parenting plan also says who may help make decisions about the children, and what will happen if the parents or custodians disagree in the future. In most cases, the parents are the only people with legal rights to their children. Sometimes, though, a court order has been entered in a nonparental or third party custody action giving someone else, such as a grandparent, a legal right to time with the children. If a court has not signed an order granting a custodian legal custody or visitation rights to a child, only the parents are involved in a modification action. If you are satisfied with the current order, but the other parent has not been following it, or if you need the terms of the current order clarified, you should file for contempt or clarification, not for modification.
Many counties have their own forms to waive the filing fee.
Call your court clerk to ask. For counties without their own forms, we have a packet called Filing In Forma Pauperis . If you need to hire an attorney, the costs will be considerably more. A Parenting Plan may be changed in only a few cases. It may be changed if both parents and any legal custodian agree to the change, and it is in the best interests of the children.