How can divorced parents manage their families without Facebook?
How can they schedule who has the kids at a particular time?
Courts are increasingly ordering them to use online services such as OurFamilyWizard.com, a social media Web site for divorced parents, grandparents, lawyers and courts. The service lets parents collectively manage schedules, trade messages and track expenses for activities such as swimming lessons or a Boy Scout trip.
"The whole concept is to have online collaboration, but not where information is at risk or necessarily on display to the world like Facebook," said Jai Kissoon, CEO of the Minneapolis-based company.
The site even lets acrimonious parents trade days with the kids in an eBay-like offer and counter-offer market, and lets courts play mediator if needed. The site time-stamps messages and page views, providing parents a way to prove communications to a judge.
More than 20,000 parents subscribe to the service, many at court order, paying $99 per year, Kisson said, including more than 2,000 Florida families.
Rich Mullins
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