Section 9.1 Custody Options

• Library: Family Law (2019 Supp)

I. (§9.1) Custody Options

A judgment that provides for child custody is required to include a specific written parenting plan that sets forth arrangements specified in § 452.310.8, RSMo 2016.

In Bridgeman v. Bridgeman, 63 S.W.3d 686 (Mo. App. E.D. 2002), the Eastern District remanded the case because the judgment gave the wife temporary custody and visitation with the daughter, but it failed to include a specific written parenting plan that set forth the arrangements specified in what is now § 452.310.8. In In re Marriage of Goodman, 267 S.W.3d 783, 788 (Mo. App. S.D. 2008), the court held that the parenting plan failed to adequately set forth “‘[a] specific written schedule detailing the custody, visitation and residential time for each child with each...