The legal specifics.
Coparency is a co-parenting app that reduces conflict at the source and keeps a clean, exportable record. Here’s what that means for your practice: ready-to-adapt order language for parenting plans and stipulated agreements, how the record works, and how records requests and subpoenas are handled.
What the record looks like.
Once a message is sent, no party can edit or alter it — the record is fixed. Each message is timestamped with read receipts, and either party can export the full communication record as a structured PDF for filing or review.
- Once sent, a message can’t be edited or altered by any party
- Timestamps and read receipts, captured as communication happens
- The full communication record, exported by a party as a structured PDF
Admissibility is determined by the court, not the app. Coparency is designed to support your documentation needs and exports cleanly for filing or review — it does not guarantee admissibility or claim court approval.
Model order language.
Name Coparency in a parenting plan or stipulated order to keep co-parenting communication in one documented channel — a single place for messaging, scheduling, and shared expenses. Copy a clause below and adapt it to your case and jurisdiction.
Please note: This is sample language for licensed attorneys and mediators to adapt to the case and the rules of their jurisdiction. It is not legal advice.
Option 1 — Short clause
A drop-in clause for straightforward matters.
The parties shall use the Coparency application (coparency.com) as their primary method of written co-parenting communication regarding the minor child(ren), including messaging, scheduling, and shared-expense tracking. Except in cases of emergency, neither party shall use text message, email, or other messaging platforms for co-parenting communication unless mutually agreed in writing.
Option 2 — Standard provision
A fuller provision for most matters.
Co-Parenting Communication Platform. The parties shall register for and maintain active accounts on the Coparency application (“Coparency”) within seven (7) days of entry of this Order. The parties shall use Coparency as their primary method of written communication concerning the minor child(ren), including but not limited to messaging, calendar and parenting-time scheduling, swap and schedule-change requests, and tracking and reimbursement of shared child-related expenses.
Except in the case of a genuine emergency involving the health or safety of a child, the parties shall not communicate about co-parenting matters by personal text message, email, social media, or third-party messaging applications.
Each party shall: (a) check Coparency for new messages no less than once every twenty-four (24) hours; (b) communicate in a civil, business-like, child-focused manner; and (c) not delete, alter, or attempt to obstruct the record of communications maintained within the application.
Option 3 — Comprehensive provision
For high-conflict matters and professional access.
Includes the full Option 2 — Standard provision above, plus the following (Copy clause copies the complete, combined text):
Professional Access. Either party’s attorney, a mediator, parenting coordinator, guardian ad litem, therapist, or other professional engaged in this matter may be granted scoped access to a party’s Coparency account, at that party’s election or as ordered by the Court, for the purpose of reviewing communication, calendar, and expense records. Access may be read-only or participatory and may be time-limited, as appropriate to the professional’s role.
Records. The written record of communications, calendar changes, and expense entries maintained within Coparency may be exported in PDF form by either party and may be submitted to the Court or to counsel. The parties acknowledge that the application maintains messages with timestamps and read-receipt information and that a message, once sent, cannot be edited or altered by either party and is retained on the record.
Good-Faith Use. Neither party shall misuse the application, including by sending excessive, harassing, or inflammatory messages, by communicating outside the platform to evade the record, or by attempting to manipulate the timing or content of the record.
Want a Word version or help tailoring this language? Email support@coparency.com.
Records requests & subpoenas.
Coparency users can export their own records — including message transcripts, expense ledgers, and calendar change logs — directly from the app as PDF files at any time. In most cases, a party’s own export is the fastest way to obtain records for court or counsel.
Coparency responds to valid legal process. If you require records through a formal request, subpoena, or court order, contact us at support@coparency.com and we will respond in accordance with our Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and applicable law.
Questions about any of this?
Email support@coparency.com about the record, the order language, or a records request — or see the For Professionals page for the full overview of how Coparency works.