Kidmate’s Timesharing Organizer will help you develop comprehensive timesharing schedules fast! Kidmate’s methodical step-by-step process will allow you to create comprehensive timesharing schedules, from the basic pattern that repeats itself, to holidays, vacations and birthdays. Kidmate’s colorful and user-friendly interface will show you the schedules for all the children simultaneously, and will actually calculate the percentage of time spent with each parent, for you, accurately and automatically, right on the screen!

Kidmate’s patented Percentages and Day Counter feature, will analyze your schedules for you four ways simultaneously, right on the screen!

• 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.

Working out the timesharing schedule is easily the most difficult decision your clients will make. By using Kidmate’s patented Percentages and Day Counter feature, you will be better able to analyze the merits of a particular timesharing proposal.

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.

Unlimited Children: Kidmate can handle an unlimited number of children, and will actually let you see the schedule for all the children, simultaneously on the screen. In fact, you can create a different timesharing schedule for each child to suit their gender, age and psychological needs!

Multiple Basic Patterns: Kidmate’s colorful user-friendly interface will allow you to create different basic patterns for different times of year. You can, therefore, have a different timesharing schedule when kids are in school, and when they are on vacation.

Time Values: With Kidmate, you can adjust the value of specific blocks of time! You can, therefore, discount, (or zero-out), the time the kids are asleep, or the time the kids are in school. You can, in fact, adjust the value of any block of time your client is contesting - a powerful tool when calculating child support!

Additional Caretaker Capability: Kidmate will allow you to establish a “third parent” as an Additional Caretaker, and track the percentage split separately. This Additional Caretaker status can be used for any third party that the children spend extensive time with, such as a nanny, day-care or boarding school.

This Additional Caretaker category can also be used for tracking the time kids spend in school.

Built-in Holidays: Kidmate comes equipped with all of the following holiday groups:

• United States
• Canada
• Christian
• Jewish

The holidays, that you have selected, are displayed on the screen, to assist you in creating calendars that address all the details of timesharing development.

In addition, Kidmate will allow you to customize your copy of the program by adding holidays that are of interest to your particular client, ethnic group or culture. Enter them once, and they become a permanent part of your calendars!  Kidmate's Customizable Holiday capability renders the program truly international!

Text Conversion: Our patented Text Conversion module will actually take the schedule you have created on the screen, and convert it into a written description, breaking down the days and times that each child is with each parent step-by-step.

• "Between 9/1/97 and 8/31/98 Michael and Stephane have a basic pattern with a two-week cycle. On Week No. 1, Mother has physical custody of the children from the previous Thursday evening at 7:30pm to Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm. Father has physical custody of the children from Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm to Monday morning of Week No. 2 at 7:30am. Mother has custody of the children from Monday morning at 7:30am to Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm. Father has custody of the children from Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm to Thursday evening at 7:30pm. Finally, Mother has custody of the children from Thursday evening at 7:30pm back to Wednesday afternoon of Week No. 1 at 2:30pm."

This description can be printed out in our Child Custody and Visitation Forms, or can be copied onto your clipboard, and pasted into your parenting plan. Timesharing schedule descriptions are often the most time-consuming part of creating parenting plans. With Kidmate, it is developed for you automatically!

Version Tracking: Divorce negotiations often involve an extensive back-and-forth process that includes multiple variations of proposals and counter-proposals until the parties settle.  Kidmate's version-tracking feature allows you to keep all the different proposals you have created available for future development.

Kidmate Calendars: With Kidmate you can print out the timesharing schedules as calendars in black and white or color. These calendars use gender-related color-coded graphics and turnover times to communicate the time spent with each parent by each child. These calendars can be used for communicating with your client, or forwarding to the opposing counsel, custody evaluator, or for presentation in court.

Also See:

• Record Keeper Module
• E-Screen Module