New app to help divorced couples with co-parenting

Aim is to reduce conflict for child's benefit, as more people seek co-parenting support

- Syarafana Shafeeq

A new mobile application to help divorced couples co-parent was launched by the Community Justice Centre (CJC) on Sept 20, in hopes of reducing miscommunication and conflict.

This comes in the light of social service agencies seeing more people seeking co-parenting support and a high volume of divorce cases assisted by CJC's social and legal services. CJC is targeting 500 users in the first year.

Besides calendar scheduling functions, the app will allow divorced parents to keep track of their child's financial expenses and attach receipts as proof. It will also let users share documents and exchange messages through a chat without needing to reveal their phone numbers.

Logs from the app, such as requests for time with the child in the calendar and message exchanges, can be exported for official purposes like court submissions.

The app was launched during CJC's Charity Dinner, held at the Sentosa Golf Club, where Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration Desmond Lee spoke on the role CJC plays in helping to keep Singapore's justice system accessible and open to everyone.

He highlighted its efforts to support those who represent themselves in court, like helping them navigate complex legal proceedings and unfamiliar terminology through online visual guides.