Description

What is a Monitored Child Exchange?

A monitored child exchange occurs when one parent transfers the child to the other parent as part of a custody or visitation agreement, often for an overnight during the week or for weekend visitation. Transfers are all documented by trained family monitors who will identify what times were the exchanges, the conditions of the children, what transpired during the exchange, i.e., children’s emotional attitudes, parents’ apparent and spoken concerns and attitudes. Signatures are required and times noted including tardiness and no shows. Observations by monitors and comments made by parents are documented as well.

Recommendations for Attorneys and Pro Se Parent Parties

For appropriately supervised visitation, it is important that the parties have a court order. We have found that court orders frequently lack clarification for visitation including:

• who is responsible for the intake fee;
• Who is responsible for service fees;
• when will visitation be scheduled;
• how frequently shall the visitation occur;
• a maximum number of hours.

Given these and other variables, we recommend that counsel consider our template which includes these and other details. Upon review, counsel is welcome to use and modify this to apply to their concerns for clients.

Click here for “Court Order For Supervised Visitation” template.

Please know that each party needs to consider that the Toby Center is responsible for the physical and emotional safety of both parents and children. Therefore, the Toby Center staff will consider all requests from the parties and or court order, but we will need to make the final determination of location, time, frequency based on our experience and background understanding of the clients including age and capacity of the children.

If you may have any questions, please contact the Toby Center Program Director.

The Visitation Program Director is also available to speak at your Bar Association of other Professional Association to explain any aspect of supervised visitation.

Fees

The Toby Center offers supervised visitation services to our family clients by making available a more affordable sliding scale fee structure.  The hourly fee is based on the documented total household income of the client requiring the visitation.  All income must be documented in order that we can afford to accommodate the client requiring the visitation. Fees must be prepaid before services can be rendered.  Acceptable payment is by debit or credit card and processed through the Toby Center Administrative Office, 855-862-9236, ext. 1. For information on payment please contact:  Rose Berkoff-Basilio at rose.berkoff@gmail.com

The Child Exchange/Visitation Program requires an intake for each parent and/or guardian and the service fee per child exchange

Initial Intake Fee: $95 per parent/party

Click here for Income Disclosure