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From:Marla Rosenbaum

Re:Tentative Resolution of Custody and Visitation Issues

Date: September 23, 2013

Following a four way settlement conference, we worked out a preliminary resolution of the custody and visitation issues in the case.However, the parties agree that until such time as all outstanding issues are resolved and reduced to writing, this agreement is not binding, and may be repudiated by either side.Nonetheless, everyone is optimistic that the other pieces will fall into place, and that we will not need to revisit the custody and visitation issues.

Here is what was agreed upon:

1.The mother is to have physical custody of the children.

2.The parties will have joint legal custody - we agreed to include a provision in the agreement detailing what are to be considered "major" decisions that must be agreed upon by both parties.

3.At the present time, the father will not have the children overnight; however, the mother agrees that this issue will be revisited in a year after the divorce is final.

4.His visitation will consist of one evening during the week - on that day, the father will leave work at 2:00 in order to pick up the children.He will feed them dinner and return them to the mother's house by 7:00 p.m.

5.The father will have the children every Sunday - he will pick them up from the mother's at 8:00 a.m. and return them at 6:00 p.m.; if the mother's birthday is on a Sunday, he will take them on Saturday instead.

6.In terms of holidays, the parties will alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas -- the parent who doesn't have the children on Christmas will have them on Christmas Eve.

7.The mother agrees that if the father wants to spend time with the children on other holidays he may do so and the father agrees that if the mother would like him to take the children an additional time during the week so she doesn't have to hire a babysitter, he will try and accommodate her request.

8.The father agrees that he will be present during all times that the children are to be with him (*note:this is a bit of a sticky point - Maria insists that the children not be left with Miranda and wanted really strong language in the agreement about this - she actually initially didn't want her to be present.I am hoping things don't blow up over this - and not quite sure how best to draft this provision).

9.The father will be responsible for dropping off and picking up the children.

10.In terms of vacations, this is another sticky point, since the father does not presently have overnight visitation - for now, I think we are agreed on him being able to take the children every day for a week during the summer - but it is possible that he will end up insisting on overnights during vacation - but for now, we have a tentative agreement.

11.We agreed to some kind of typical clause about parental cooperation and mutual commitments not to alienate the children from either parent.

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