• Overnights: The traditional method for specifying the percentage split.
• Total Time: Based on the total number of hours and minutes with each parent.
• Quality Time: Customizable time-monitoring based on individual client needs. Quality Time will show you the percentage split for specific blocks of time that are of interest to your client: For example, children’s awake time, children’s awake time outside of school, or a parent’s optimal time with the kids.
• And, Day Counter: Used in many states for calculating child support, Kidmate’s Day Counter will show you the cumulative number of days that children spend with each parent per year.

If, for example, you have a case where the children are spending a greater number of “waking hours” with one parent, and a greater number of overnights with the other, you can use Kidmate to calculate exactly what the percentage split is, of overnights, and total time.

In addition, you can use Kidmate’s patented Time Values feature to “discount” certain blocks of time, such as sleep time and school time.

• Parents often have trouble “visualizing” the timesharing schedule(s). Kidmate’s Calendars can help parents grasp the reality of the timesharing schedule they are developing, as you negotiate the case toward resolution.
• In addition, the Percentages and Day Counter feature can help you analyze and, therefore, present to your client, the relative merits of a schedule, so that your clients can give you the feedback you need to settle the case.

• Click on File on the Toolbar, then click on Print Setup on the pulldown menu
• In the "Print Setup" screen, select your print-to-PDF application from the scroll-down listing; click OK; "Print Setup" will close
• Click on File on the Toolbar, then click on File on the Toolbar
• Click on the Print Setup on the pull-down menu
• Click on Print on the pull-down menu
• In the "Print" screen, check the box in front of the calendar, report, or screen you want to save as a separate PDF document
• Click the Print button on the right side of the Print Dialogue screen
• The Save As screen will open; browse to the folder in which you want to save the document
• Enter a name for this file and click the Save button

Timesharing/visitation schedules are easily the biggest hurdle in divorce negotiations between separating parents. Emotionally stressed parents have trouble understanding schedules. With Kidmate you can print out clear easy-to-read calendars that show when the children are with each parent, including turnover times and daytime visits. These calendars and the forms that accompany them are powerful communications tools that help “break through” what is inevitably a very emotional issue.

Now, when your clients leave your office, you can give them a Kidmate printout that clearly shows the timesharing schedule you are developing. This powerful new tool can help increase productivity, by helping parents understand what is indisputably a very emotional issue that is transforming their lives. In fact, Kidmate can create repeat business when clients come back to you for future calendars.

Studies have found that the hands-on involvement of both parents after divorce is important to the healthy development of children. In addition, the involvement of both parents decreases delinquency in child-support payments.

These timesharing schedules are comprehensive! They clearly define the basic pattern that repeats itself over the course of the year, to holidays, vacations and birthdays.