Coordinating parental responsibilities after a divorce can generate tension. To mitigate these conflicts, applications have emerged that function as shared calendars, allowing parents to manage their children's needs with minimal direct contact. These platforms limit communication to detailed notes about the children's care and activities.
One of the prominent tools is mitribuApp, designed to optimize custody coordination. It allows users to add important events like birthdays or sports activities and share this information with the other guardian. Entries such as "pick up the child from school at 4 PM" or "soccer practice is delayed" centralize digital communications within the app.
The platform also facilitates discussions about problems or changes in custody arrangements, aiming to reduce stress. Furthermore, it allows calendar overlaps with friends and family, fostering a "sense of community and collaboration." Financial disagreements are another key point, and the app enables the recording of expenses for food, clothing, or extracurricular activities, promoting fair and transparent sharing.
Another popular option is 2BePart, which prioritizes information and task exchange to "be part of the life of each member of a family with separated parents." Similar to mitribuApp, it stores data on child care for both parents to consult, synchronize, or modify.
Lawyer Sebastián Vega Reyes, an expert in civil law, notes that these applications can be useful but "require a willingness from the parties to upload and read the information." While direct dialogue is ideal, in cases of broken communication, these tools "can be more convenient" for managing obligations without direct interaction.
Vega Reyes adds that these applications act as "a simple personal reminder" that is shared, and a conventional shared calendar could serve a similar function if there was "that principle of agreement and commitment to upload all the information." However, he warns about the privacy of children's data, as the developers of these platforms might have access to it due to the absence of a public supervisory body.
