Claude Prompt: Draft a Parenting Plan From Schedules and Your Terms
Drafts a parenting plan from the parents' work schedules, the child's school and activity calendar and the terms you supply: schedule, holidays and vacations, exchanges, decision-making, communication, travel and dispute resolution. Every term comes from your inputs; a topic with no input is left for you to complete.
The Prompt
Variables (8)
| Variable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| {{court}} | Court | Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona |
| {{parent_one_name}} | Parent One Name | Elena Marsh |
| {{parent_two_name}} | Parent Two Name | Tomas Marsh |
| {{children}} | Children and Birth Dates | Lucas Marsh, born 04/09/2016; Ada Marsh, born 10/22/2019. |
| {{work_schedules}} | Parents' Work Schedules | Elena: nurse, Mon-Wed 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., one weekend in three. Tomas: warehouse supervisor, Tue-Sat 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
| {{school_calendar}} | School and Activity Calendar | Lincoln Elementary 2026-27: first day 08/11/2026, winter break 12/21/2026 to 01/01/2027, school day 8:10 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. Soccer Thursdays 5 p.m., Fall season. |
| {{attorney_terms}} | Terms the Attorney Wants | Alternating weeks, exchange Sunday 6 p.m. at the school lot. Mother has the children Thanksgiving in odd years. Parents decide medical issues jointly. Communication by text only. |
| {{required_content}} | Required Content Text or NONE | NONE |
Expected Output
An <analysis> block, then Part 1, attorney-only notes (safety passages quoted first, conflicts, a day-by-day overnight tally, a table tying each term to its input, terms the schedules make hard to perform, unsupported statements declined, declined requests, missing information); Part 2, the proposed parenting plan with headings for regular schedule, holidays and vacations, exchanges, decision-making, communication, travel and dispute resolution, in which any topic you gave no term for holds only the line TO BE COMPLETED BY ATTORNEY; and a closing Verification list.
Usage Notes
Use once the parents' schedules and the school calendar are in hand and you know which terms you will propose. Paste the actual shift hours and calendar dates so that exchange times can be tested against them. Failure mode to watch: a term the model supplied to make the plan look complete, such as a holiday rotation, a right of first refusal or a decision-making rule you did not give. Each should appear only as the bare placeholder line. Read the document part line by line before it leaves the office. Not legal advice. The attorney remains responsible for verifying every fact, figure and authority before use.
Double-check before use
- Search the plan for square brackets before it leaves the office. In testing, an internal marker was once left inside the plan.
These are the places where this prompt was seen to slip when tested on sample cases with a small AI model.
Originally featured in: Prompt Engineering for Lawyers: The Complete 2026 Guide
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