Do I have to disclose where my child goes to school or daycare? 5 Answers as of February 21, 2012

Normally where one parent has full legal and physical custody there is no obligation to disclose school and day care information,particularly if restraining orders are involved due to domestic violence. Your custody order should spell out your obligations in this regard. You should consult a family law attorney or facilitator if you have any questions.

Normally, you should disclose your child's school or daycare to the other parent. If there are orders requiring that disclosure, your spouse asks for that information and you don't want to disclose that information, you should apply for an Ex Parte Order that you don't have to disclose that information, based on the domestic violence matter. If there are no orders requiring that disclosure, you should likely be fairly safe not disclosing that information to your spouse if he asks for it - although I would expect that there are no-contact orders restraining your spouse from contacting you. If your spouse has to pay add-ons such as a portion of the school or daycare expense, you could have a dilemma because if you don't want to disclose the school or daycare, you can't provide him copies of their bills, unless you redact the information from those bills that you don't want to disclose. If in doubt, apply for an Ex Parte Order.

If he has supervised visitation and you have full legal custody, then I would argue you do not need to provide this information. Normally, even if you had sole legal custody you are required to provide the information. He might not have a say so but he is entitled to the information. Depending on the terms of the restraining order, I would ask that this information remain confidential. If you have future hearings, ask to see if you can keep this confidential. If you already had your court hearing, you might want to go back to court and ask that it remain confidential.

A lot depends on what your court order says. If it says that you must share school information with the father, then probably yes. I suggest you either ask the family law facilitator in your county or have a consultation with a family law attorney to get a better answer

Your domestic violence orders should contain language precluding your ex from having the child's school and daycare addresses. If this protection is not in your existing domestic violence order, return to court to get this relief.