You Have the Court Forms. You Don't Have a Plan.
Saskatchewan gives you blank boxes on the Petition. The government kits tell you where to sign and which court to file in. What they don't tell you is how to fill in Section 24C and 24D — the parenting proposals that decide where your children sleep, who makes decisions about their school, and how holidays get divided for the next decade.
And since 2022, you can't even get in front of a judge until you've completed a parenting course, gone through mandatory family dispute resolution, and prepared proposals detailed enough for a mediator to work with. Show up without a structured draft, and you're paying CAD 150–500 per hour of mediation time to figure out what you could have resolved at your kitchen table.
The Parenting Plan Navigation System
The Saskatchewan Child Custody & Parenting Plan Guide is a step-by-step process guide built specifically for Saskatchewan's post-2020 family law system. It walks you through every decision you need to make — in the order the system requires — from completing your Parenting After Separation course to filing a parenting plan the Court of King's Bench will accept.
This is not a generic Canadian custody guide with a Saskatchewan label. It covers the Children's Law Act 2020, the mandatory early family dispute resolution process, the three gatekeepers you must pass before your case reaches a courtroom, and the specific court forms and financial disclosures Saskatchewan requires. Whether you're self-representing, preparing for mediation, or working with a lawyer, the guide gives you the structured framework that the government kits leave out.
What's Inside
The complete three-gatekeeper walkthrough — how to register for and complete the Parenting After Separation course (free, online), satisfy the mandatory family dispute resolution requirement under Section 44.01, and prepare for the Judicial Case Conference where a judge first reviews your case.
Decision-making responsibility vs parenting time explained — what each term means under both the Divorce Act and the Children's Law Act 2020, how they interact, and the critical default rules for unmarried parents who have never cohabited after the birth of a child.
Parenting schedule design with time-calculation worksheets — common arrangements (2-2-3, 4-3, alternating weekends with midweek), holiday rotation templates, transition protocol language, and worksheets that calculate your annual parenting-time percentage to the hour — because Saskatchewan courts treat the 40% shared-parenting threshold as a hard mathematical line.
Child support mechanics and financial disclosure prep — how Section 9 set-off calculations work in shared-parenting arrangements, what goes into Section 7 special expenses, and a step-by-step guide to completing the mandatory financial disclosure on Forms 15-47 and 15-49.
The ten-stage court process from Petition to Final Order — what happens at each step, what documents you need, and what to expect from the Local Registrar at the Court of King's Bench.
Family violence and coercive control provisions — how these affect your FDR exemption eligibility, the court's best-interests analysis, and your parenting arrangement options including supervised parenting time.
Relocation and variation procedures — the 60-day written notice requirement, the material-change-in-circumstances standard for varying an existing order, and how to document why your current arrangement no longer works.
Seven standalone printable worksheets — a Parenting Time Calculator to verify the 40% threshold, a Decision-Making Responsibility Worksheet, a Holiday and Vacation Planner for Saskatchewan statutory holidays, a Financial Disclosure Preparation Checklist for Forms 15-47 and 15-49, a Parenting Plan Drafting Template that assembles all your decisions into one structured document, plus Exchange and Agency Communication Logs to track every interaction throughout the process.
Who This Guide Is For
- Self-representing parents who downloaded the government's free self-help kit and realized it provides blank forms but no guidance on what to write in them
- Parents preparing for mandatory mediation who want to arrive at their first session with a structured parenting proposal instead of paying a mediator CAD 150–500/hour to brainstorm from scratch
- Parents working with a lawyer who want to resolve the scheduling details themselves and spend their legal budget on binding signatures rather than basic planning — at CAD 250–400/hour for a family lawyer, arriving with a draft saves real money
- Parents navigating the 40% threshold who need to design a schedule that meets or exceeds the shared-parenting time requirement for child support purposes
- Parents with existing orders who need to vary their arrangement due to relocation, a child aging out of the current schedule, or a transition from supervised to unsupervised parenting time
Why the Free Government Kits Aren't Enough
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Justice and PLEA provide excellent free resources — the self-help kits, court forms, and plain-language legal education are genuinely useful. But they serve a different purpose: the kits give you the paperwork, and PLEA explains the law. Neither gives you a framework for actually building a parenting plan.
The government kit hands you Form 15-16 (the Petition) with a blank Section 24C. It does not explain how to write a schedule that satisfies the 40% threshold, how to phrase transition clauses that hold up under enforcement, or how to address holiday rotation conflicts before they become court applications. PLEA's interactive Agreement Maker — which many parents previously relied on to bridge this gap — has been offline for revision.
The guide fills the structural gap between knowing the law and executing the plan. It provides the worksheets, templates, and step-by-step process that the government resources assume you'll get from a lawyer.
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Download the free parenting plan checklist to see the core framework — a two-page reference covering the essential items every Saskatchewan parenting plan needs.
When you're ready for the full process — the detailed explanations, worksheets, schedule templates, financial disclosure walkthrough, and court process guide — get the complete Saskatchewan Child Custody & Parenting Plan Guide for .