Kidtime Courts
Kidtime is used in family court. Attorneys recommend it to parents, and practitioners review the record through a free view-only account. This page is for judges, clerks, guardians ad litem and court staff: how the record holds up, language for an order, and materials to hand to parents.
Updated September 22, 2026 — trusted by 25,000+ co-parents
A parent builds the record by using the app. Nothing is reconstructed later, and nothing in it can be quietly changed.
Once a message is sent, neither parent can change it, remove it or take it back. The export shows when it was sent and whether the other parent opened the conversation after it was sent.
Each schedule change, swap and confirmation writes a history entry both parents can see: who changed what, with the before and after, to the second.
Consent is shown before the first call, and the other parent sees a recording indicator on every call.
Messages, notes, expenses, the calendar’s change history and parenting time each export as a PDF in a stated time zone, locked against modification, with a cover page that states how the record was made and a Record ID Kidtime can check a copy against while the original is on file.
The record is stored encrypted and backed up daily. Only the parent who wrote a note can remove it, and nobody can remove a message.
Every entry is stamped by the server when it is made, not by either parent's phone, and shown with its time zone. In the app the stamp reads to the second, for example 5:35:12 PM CDT, so the sequence of events is never in question.
Clauses a court can use to name Kidtime in an order: communication, the calendar, expenses, records and practitioner access. On the page, and as PDF and Word downloads.
Read the order language →What a Kidtime record looks like: one sample each of the message, notes, expense, calendar change and parenting time records, exactly as a parent or practitioner would file them.
See the sample records →A brochure and one-page display sheets a court can print or request in bulk, for parents who need a shared calendar and a record from day one.
Get the materials →Yes. Kidtime is used in family court, and attorneys recommend it to parents in court. A parent exports the record as a PDF, or their attorney, mediator or counselor exports it directly from a free view-only account.
Admissibility is decided by the court in each case. What a court looks at is whether the record shows when each entry was made and that it has not changed since, and that is what a Kidtime export shows: each message, event and note is stamped at the moment it was created, messages cannot be edited or deleted, and every calendar change is logged with who made it. Your attorney can tell you how your court wants the record filed.
Some orders name an app; most say to communicate in writing or through a co-parenting app. Kidtime is used in family court, attorneys recommend it, and our order language gives a court the clauses to name it. If your order already names another app, use that one.
Communicate through Kidtime messages, keep the custody schedule and every swap in the calendar, log shared expenses, and give a practitioner view-only access to the record. Each clause is written out on the order language page.
Yes. Any court professional can create a free professional account on the web. It comes with a sample family, so you can walk through the calendar and the parenting plan builder before recommending Kidtime to a parent. We will also walk your court through it: hello@kidtime.app.
Kidtime professional accounts are free, with no billing at all. Parents start on the free tier. Exports and recorded calls are a yearly Premium subscription, and only one parent needs it; the other parent stays on the free tier and still sees the shared calendar and messages.
The parent exports it, or a practitioner they have given view-only access exports it. A request to Kidtime itself goes to hello@kidtime.app. We have never received a subpoena.
Practitioner accounts are free and view-only. Each page explains what you see and how a client shares the record with you.
Your calendar and messages become the record as you use them. One parent's Premium covers the exports for both.