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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does that even mean?  Sit down with them and come up with a fixed schedule.  Make a joint calendar that you child can see where they should be when.

You don't give specifics but you tell the child you are financially helping the other parent till they get on their feet but they will need to get a job.

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We have a fixed schedule.  I proposed 50/50, and the other parent told me it was too much, and so we agreed on a schedule with less time.  We sat down with kid's therapist  and the kid and went through it together, and hung a copy in their room.  That was last Thursday.  Since then, the other parent has been scheduled for two visits.  They dropped the kid off with grandparents once, and didn't show the other time.  [/quote]

If they have to get a job, maybe they have interviews, etc.[/quote]

I could argue that they don't have to get a job, but I won't go into why.  But I made it very clear that if they needed to change a date for any reason, they should reach out.  They could have said "I have a job interview on Tuesday, any chance I could take kid Wednesday?" and I would have said yes, without hesitation.  Or they could have called before the interview (not while kid was waiting expecting them to show) and said, "I'm sorry, I have a job interview" and left out the "because parent doesn't give me any money".

I also don't think they had job interviews, given the timing, but I can't prove that. [/quote]

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