Getting through 2020 is like going on a trash safari in a busted Geo Tracker and hitting every pot hole along the way, but a tough year doesn’t excuse a rough relationship with your co-parent. There are a lot of things in 2020 that are out of your control (a worldwide pandemic, for example), but your relationship with your ex isn’t one of them.

Co-parenting is never easy, but co-parenting during a pandemic is next level hard. Do you send your kids to school on Plan B or sign them up for virtual-only? Who will stay at home with the kids while they learn from home? What if your co-parent wants to forgo public schooling all together? Honestly, co-parenting in 2020 is a veritable landmine of arguments just waiting to happen and there are no easy answers. Just like you, family law attorneys are having to figure it out as they go along. Worldwide pandemics aside, co-parenting can be a full bag of crazy on the best of days. Here are some tips that can (hopefully) make the process a lot less complicated.