Shared Calendar
A single source of truth for custody schedule, school events, medical appointments, and activities. Every change is logged with who proposed it, who accepted, who rejected, and exactly when. The calendar is a coordination tool today and a timeline of behavior tomorrow — patterns of last-minute changes or repeated cancellations become visible as data, not anecdote.
The calendar is also a record
The everyday job of the calendar is obvious — coordinate pickups, school events, doctor visits, activities. The less obvious job is documentation: when one parent reschedules Wednesday three times in a row, that pattern matters. When a custody handoff is missed without notice, that matters. A shared Google Calendar can show you what is happening this week; it cannot show a custody evaluator what has been happening for six months.
CoParent.Help's shared calendar treats every event and every change as a record. Server-set timestamps. Explicit accept / reject / counter responses on change requests. Schedule timeline export as part of every Court-Ready Report. The calendar coordinates today; it builds the record by default.
What gets recorded
- Event creation (who, when, what, which child)
- Change requests (proposer, target event, new time, reason)
- Responses (accept / reject / counter-time + counter-reason)
- No-shows and missed handoffs (logged on the timeline)
- Cancellations with timestamp and reason
What the calendar actually does
Every item below is shipped in the product today — verifiable with a 10-day free trial, no credit card required.
Recurring custody patterns built in
Set up the common patterns directly — 50/50 alternating weeks, 2-2-3, 2-2-5-5, every-other-weekend, or a fully custom rotation. The calendar materializes every event into the future automatically so you do not have to manually create each handoff.
Schedule change requests with accept / reject / counter
When one parent needs to swap, they propose the change in the calendar. The other parent receives an explicit request with three responses: accept, reject, or propose a counter-time. Every request and every response is time-stamped at creation — schedule changes are not silent.
Multi-child support with per-child overlay
View one child at a time or every child overlaid on the same calendar. Useful when children have different schedules (school, activities, medical appointments) but you need to coordinate handoffs across all of them on the same days.
Google Calendar + Outlook two-way sync
The shared CoParent.Help calendar can sync with your existing Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar so the events you care about appear alongside your personal calendar. Sync is opt-in per account; you control direction and which categories sync.
Reminders for pickups, drop-offs, appointments
Configurable reminders for every event — push notification on mobile, email, in-app. Different lead times for different categories (a doctor appointment might need 24 hours, a Wednesday pickup might need 30 minutes). Reminders never wake you about the other parent's solo time.
Automatic conflict detection
The calendar flags overlapping events on the same child — two activities at the same time, a school event that collides with a custody handoff, a medical appointment scheduled during the other parent's time. Conflict alerts surface before the conflict becomes a fight.
PDF schedule export — yours forever
Export the current 30, 60, or 90 day view as a clean PDF — useful for printing on the fridge, sending to grandparents, or attaching to a school enrollment form. The PDF carries the same time stamps and authenticity guarantees as the live calendar.
Schedule timeline as Court-Ready evidence
The calendar feeds the schedule-events-and-changes category of every Court-Ready Report. Every event ever created, every change requested, every accept or reject, every no-show — the full timeline of who proposed what and when, ready to export when needed.
Built around how custody actually gets ordered
The platform supports the patterns family courts actually use, not just "weekly recurring." Pick one from the list, or define an arbitrary rotation.
50/50 alternating weeks
One full week each. Handoff typically on a school morning or Friday afternoon.
2-2-3
Parent A has Monday + Tuesday, Parent B has Wednesday + Thursday, alternating Fri/Sat/Sun.
2-2-5-5
Parent A: 2 days, then 5 days; Parent B: 2 days, then 5 days. Useful when one parent's schedule allows longer stretches.
Every other weekend
Primary parent has weekdays; the other parent has every other Fri-Sun. Common in older orders.
Custom rotation
Define an arbitrary repeating pattern — the calendar materializes it forward indefinitely.
Where the calendar earns its keep
The handoff that never gets confused
Wednesday at 5 PM is the regular handoff. The calendar event fires reminders to both phones at 4:30 PM. No more "I thought it was your turn" texts at 5:45 PM with the kids waiting.
The pattern of last-minute changes
Your co-parent rescheduled or skipped 14 Wednesdays over six months. The schedule timeline export shows every change request, every accept, every reject — verifiable proof of a pattern instead of a vague complaint.
The conflict surfaced before the fight
You schedule a dentist visit on a Thursday afternoon. The calendar flags that Thursday is your co-parent's time. You see the conflict before you send the appointment time, you message about it through Secure Messaging, and the appointment shifts with consent — not after a fight.
The activity calendar grandparents can see
Print or PDF the next 60 days for the grandparents who watch on Tuesdays. They have the soccer practices, the school events, the orthodontist visits in one place — without giving them platform access.
Coordinate today. Document by default.
Your 10-day free trial includes the shared calendar with custody patterns and change requests — no credit card required — so you can start using it as your primary scheduling tool today. Paid plans extend retention and unlock Court-Ready Report exports of the full schedule timeline.