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Child Custody & Parenting Time: What Constitutes an Emergency and What Doesn’t When sharing custody with someone, be it an ex-husband, ex-wife, former love interest, or even a past fling, it can be a daunting situation to navigate. It is not uncommon for two co-parents to discover—or rediscover—that there are major differences in their parenting styles, daily life/care preferences, discipline of the child, and day-to-day household environments. Put simply, you don’t like how the other parent is raising “your” child, but the reality is the child isn’t just “yours” and it is important that you learn to co-parent as harmoniously as possible with the child’s other parent. And the truth is: that isn’t always easy. A big part of positive coparenting and navigating the family law court system effectively is learning what constitutes an “emergency”—and what doesn’t. If you call your lawyer every time any little thing happens in the day-to-day, regardless of its significance, it tends to make your legal bills grow a whole lot faster. And often, those calls and emails about the little things do not lead to any positive action taken on your/the child’s behalf or at least not typically in an “emergency” manner. This is because everything that happens—even if it does bother you or is annoying—does not constitute an emergency, even if it feels like it does. What constitutes an emergency is the child being in immediate mental or physical danger—and that can be a high bar to cross...