Abstract
ABSTRACT Parenting coordination has an emerging role in child custody and access cases that provides a combination of legal and psychological interventions to address high conflict coparenting situations. Despite the role's rapid expansion, the literature has yet to explore the reasons why this role may be effective with the population of chronically litigating divorced parents. This article explores coparenting after divorce from a structural family systems' perspective and provides a conceptual framework for why the parenting coordination (PC) process is effective in assisting high conflict coparents to implement their parenting plans. The goal of disengaging high conflict coparents in order to create and maintain a parallel coparenting model is suggested as essential to the PC process. This article will describe various functions that can be uniquely provided in the PC process to disengage conflicted coparents, including: (1) working with coparents to enhance the detail and specificity of their parenting plan; (2) using the parenting coordinator as the interface or functional link between the coparents, titrating the engagement of the coparents to facilitate adequate information exchange and effective decision-making about child-related issues while minimizing conflict; and (3) managing the involvement of the system external to the family.
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