Parenting Calendar +

16/01/2026
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Powered by LEAP, Parenting Calendar + provides a simple and accurate way for family law practitioners, to manage and track parenting arrangements in family law matters.

Key Features:

Seamless integration between Parenting Calendar + and LEAP allows family lawyers to:

Manage and track parenting arrangements in family law matters.
Streamline workflows and eliminate the need for multiple systems.
Offer a cost-effective, standardised alternative to custom solutions.
Enhance communication and transparency between solicitors and clients, strengthening client relationships.

Getting Started

Click the icon in the LEAP ribbon at the top of your matter screen. Once loaded, you will be presented with the Parenting Calendar + screen.

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If for some reason why Parenting Calendar + isn’t appearing in your LEAP ribbon, it could be:

Users are not working in a Family Law matter;
There are too many apps in the LEAP ribbon, click the ‘More’ button to reveal additional apps; or
A quick sign-out and sign-back-in of LEAP could be required.

Global Settings

Click the Settings icon to access the Global Settings.

Gazetted School Holidays

The School tab includes all currently available gazetted school holiday dates for ease of reference.

Edit Names and Nicknames

From the Details tab, you can easily edit the names of the parents and children, including the option to assign nicknames to each. When exporting the Calendar and Events list to PDF, you can select to display these nicknames in the exported PDF document.

Create Parenting Arrangements

At any time, you can create a new Parenting Arrangement by clicking the New parenting arrangement tab on the top right of the screen.

The New parenting arrangement window will open with:

The default period set from the current date to the end of the calendar year
All children selected

Click on the dates under Period - highlighted below, to easily adjust the start and end dates of the Parenting Arrangement.

Click Save for the parenting arrangements to display visually in the calendar. The colours represent the time the children will spend with each parent.

Easily click on the coloured sections of the calendar to show an expanded view of the parenting arrangement in the sidebar.

Holiday Arrangement

Select if the parenting arrangement is a holiday arrangement. Holiday arrangements use School Settings to determine dates of division and take priority over non-holiday arrangements.

Link Parenting Arrangements

Easily link holiday arrangements with the default parenting arrangement for ease of reference.

Click Next to enter in the Division and Changeover details.
The default for rotation is set to fortnightly and alternative weekends.

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If the rotation period is changed, it will be automatically filled with the same preset, unless you have a custom configuration or that preset is unavailable. If it’s custom, the last week will be copied to automatically populate the newly added weeks.

Enter relevant information and click Next.

Changeovers for Parenting Arrangements

Parenting Arrangements now include Changeovers.
The person responsible for picking up/dropping off the child or children, can be determined by the location of the changeover.
Half-coloured blocks represent changeovers, for when the child or children are changing from spending time with one parent to the other parent. These are automatically filled in the presets. If you manually edit the schedule, once a week is filled, the system will highlight any cells where a changeover is required. (e.g. two differently coloured blocks appear consecutively).

Enter in relevant details for Changeovers for parenting arrangements, with time and location.

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Changeover times and locations must be populated before saving.

Click Save for the parenting arrangement to display visually in the calendar. The colours represent the time the children will spend with each parent.

Easily click on the coloured sections of the calendar to show an expanded view of the parenting arrangement in the sidebar.

Create New Event

At any time, you can easily create a new event for each child or all the children from the tab or directly from the Calendar.

New Event tab

From the New Event tab, you can select and enter the required information for:

Type of event.
Name of the event.
Location of the event.
The Start/End Date and Time.
All day or recurring and the regularity of the event.
Drop off/Pick up parent.
Children the event is relevant to.

If required, select the green toggle and the relevant parent to Override current arrangement. If selected, the selected parent will have the priority of care for the duration of the event.

Click Save to save the event in the calendar.

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Once saved, the event will appear in the calendar with a summary of the event. It will also show the corresponding colour and icon attributed to the event type for ease of reference.

Calendar

You can also easily create an event from the Calendar.

Simply click on a specific day to open the New Event screen to select and enter the required information for:

Type of event.
Name of the event.
Location of the event.
The Start/End Date and Time.
All day or recurring and the regularity of the event.
Drop off/Pick up parent.
Children the event is relevant to.

Click Save to save the event in the calendar.

This method can be used to create an event spanning multiple days by clicking and dragging across the relevant days.

Expand Event

At any time, you can click on an event in the Calendar to show an expanded view in the sidebar, on the right side of the screen.

From here, you can also Edit or Delete the event, if required.

Filters

You can use the filter options on top of the Calendar to easily filter by:

Parenting arrangements (if more than one)
Event Type for each child
Pick-up and Drop-off parents
Child or children attending the event

Selecting an item or ticking and unticking the check boxes will show and hide the selected items respectively.

Navigate between months

You can easily navigate between months in Parenting Calendar + via the left and right arrows on the top left of the screen.

You can also navigate by clicking on the month at the top of the screen and selecting a month and year of your choice.

Easily return to the current day by clicking the to return to the current month.

Export to PDF

You can easily export the Calendar and Events List to PDF for ease of sharing. Simply click on the export button to save a PDF copy to the correspondence list within your LEAP matter.

If you have previously set nicknames in the Settings, you have the option to use nicknames on the exported PDF. Click Export.

A legend will appear on the front page of the exported PDF, showing an Event key.

Events List

Click the Events List icon to see an in-depth summary of events for each or all children.
The Events List will show events that have been automatically populated (such as school holidays and public holidays), together with any events that have been manually entered.

Enter keywords into the search function to easily search for specific events.

At any time, you can easily add a new event by clicking on the tab at the bottom left of the screen and selecting the relevant information from the New event window.

Sorting Options

Click the Column headings to sort by Event Type, Location, Parent/Child, Start Date/Time, and whether the event is recurring.

Filter Options

From the Filters on top, you can filter the events by date range, type of event, and relevant parent/child.

Preview, Edit or Delete Options

Click on the drop-down options to easily edit an Event. Alternatively, click on the elipsis on the right-hand side to Preview, Edit or Delete the event from the Edit event window.

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16/01/2026 2:45 pm

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Parenting Calendar +

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