Parenting Time Expeditor

Parenting Time Expeditor

A Parenting Time Expeditor (PTE) is a court appointed neutral professional with authority to render legally binding decisions to resolve parenting time disputes. Common issues addressed by the PTE process include: parenting time schedule and/or trades, holiday allocations, vacation time, special events, and off-duty parent phone access to the children. A PTE cannot address parental communication issues, extra-curricular activities, decision making about therapy and/or healthcare for children, school placement, discipline, daycare, religious education etc. PTEs can enforce, interpret, clarify existing parenting time orders as well as resolve parenting time issues which are not addressed by an existing order. The Parenting Time Expeditor process is intended to be an alternative to litigation and court involvement and using the PTE process typically results in quicker resolution of issues and saves money (versus litigation).