Anne Heche is willing to pay someone $375 an hour to do what most divorced and single parents have to do on their own, for free, every day. Anne Heche and her ex-husband Coley Laffoon have agreed to hire a parenting plan coordinator. “What is a parenting plan coordinator?” you ask. It’s exactly as it sounds. This ridiculously paid person will help in coaching the two of these idiots on how to co-parent. He or she will help resolve conflicts that arise between the exes.
I wonder how little Homer — they should have hired an infant naming specialist about seven years ago — will feel when he grows up and realizes that his parents had to pay a professional to facilitate scheduling a play date?
Parenting coordinators are god sends in highly conflicted divorce cases where the alternative is paying (at minimum) $1000 per hour in lawyers fees and court costs. If she’s on national tv calling her ex a lazy ass, do you really think they are able to co-parent effectively?
And trust me, millions of families do not co-parent well, hang around the family law blog circle to get an inkling of how awful non-publicized divorces can be. Baldwin only touched on how bad it can be…
Yeah, I agree with Erykah. I’d never heard of that but I sure wish my (divorced) parents would’ve had one when I was younger. They instead chose the route of putting me in the middle of everything, even at 9 years old, and making me sit through bad mouthing of the other. If they had had a parenting plan coordinator (or you know, some civility), they wouldn’t be using the other option Erykah mentions now, which would be the lawyers. some people need things like parenting plan coordinators. It’s not for the parent’s sake. It’s for the kids.
If it even helps the poor kid involved a little, then its worth it. Complete Shame they can’t be civil enough to do it on their own.
anne heche is a classless, odious woman. and with a large touch of the crazazy.
that said, i hope no one is surprised in 10 years when little homer gets his first DUI. sad.
How about if I tell Celestra and her idiot ex-husband that they are both assholes for a mere $250 an hour. That’s quite a bargain, no?
and I’ll throw in a kick in the shin for the low low bargain price of $235! ha!
My husband is a mediator who attempts to settle disputes before they turn into legal cases, thus clogging the court system. He says the hardest mediations are custody issues. If it’s a simple case of “my neighbor’s trees drop leaves in my yard”, that can get squared away in an hour or so.
Fights between human beings over another human being get quite ugly and contentious, and they often have to make another appointment to finish the business at hand.
This is certainly an honest profession and should be more readily available to EVERYONE. I wish my brother could afford something like this with his “baby mama.”
It’s nice for the CHILD to have someone to stand of up for them and have a sane voice in the conversation.
Well,wasn’t she the one who was mocking her ex in one of those talkshows,saying that the only thing he would do for a living was going to the mailbox and looking for one of her paychecks?
I think that compared to all the other crap that celebrities spend their money on,this seems to be a wise decision.
If I had to work with her, I’d charge more. Sounds like a bargain.. She needs all the help she can get.
Kinda WAY off topic but if you are a EB fan and remember the titty pictures of Lily Allen and the people who were commenting on it than you may be interested in this. If not keep reading.
anonymous says:
September 13, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Lily Allen was with Kate Moss on the yacht for less than 2 hours. It wasn’t 3 days as reported. They don’t get photographed together enough to say they “hang” out’. Lily Allen was on that boat because she was relaxing before a show in Monte Carlo. When they do spend time together, the press hunts them down, which is obviously not that often.
So given its my nature to not let stuff go, i found a nice interview on the Sun UK with Lily on a radio show explaining what her and Kate Moss talk about, here is a hint, the three C’s…..and toward the end she explains their AFTERNOON OF HANGING OUT! So if you want to pretend they aren’t BFF’s(who party together btw) then you are really delusional! While you are on Sun UK you can find many more things with Lily and KMoss (even her daughter with them) either in photos or in vid! Haha in ya face!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2612923/Lily-Allen-cant-get-a-good-nights-sleep.html
Woops sorry forgot to tell you who the fuck just wrote that….. it was me!
I hope Homer will grow up to think that his parents cared enough about his well-being to hire a professional to help them coparent. It might make him better-off than so many kids who just look back and realize that they were the rope in tug-of-war between mom and dad.
Do these people ever discuss how they would parent BEFORE they get married and have a child. I find it absurd that you and your ex have such completely different views on parenting that you need hired help to resolve parenting disputes. I understand that the love is gone, but did their values completely change??? The worse is Kelly Rutherford and her ex who went to court over when to potty train their handbag/son Hermes.