THE PARENTING PLAYBOOK: Your Game Plan for Raising Healthy Children Through Divorce
Before every football season begins, every player receives a playbook.
No coach waits until the opening kickoff to explain the game plan. The best preparation happens before the pressure builds, before emotions take over, and before every decision feels urgent.
Parenting through divorce deserves the same preparation.
The Parenting Playbook was created to help parents focus on what matters most—not just winning a custody case, but raising healthy children. Divorce changes the structure of a family, but it doesn’t change the mission of parenthood. Children still need love. They still need stability. They still need parents who are willing to put their needs above conflict.
This free eBook is designed to help you do exactly that.
Written by the Mississippi family-law attorneys of Robertson + Easterling, The Parenting Playbook combines practical legal guidance with timeless parenting principles. It explains Mississippi’s custody laws, including the state’s new joint custody presumption, in plain English while helping parents understand what courts are really looking for: healthy, child-focused parenting.
Inside, you’ll learn the difference between legal and physical custody, how judges evaluate parenting under the Albright Factors, how to build an effective parenting plan, avoid common co-parenting mistakes, and make decisions that serve your children long after the court case is over. Most importantly, you’ll be challenged to think beyond parenting schedules and court orders and focus instead on the legacy you’re building every day.
The Parenting Playbook is not about choosing sides, keeping score, or treating custody like a competition. It is about helping parents raise children who feel deeply loved, emotionally secure, and free to enjoy meaningful relationships with both parents whenever it is safe and healthy to do so.
This guide is not a substitute for legal advice, and it is not a sales pitch. It is a public service we offer because we believe informed parents make better decisions, and better decisions create healthier families. Whether you’re just beginning the divorce process or adjusting to a new chapter of co-parenting, the principles in this playbook are designed to help you lead with wisdom, consistency, and purpose.
The final custody order will one day become a distant memory.
The legacy you leave your children will not.
