During the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), sifting through the vast array of articles, blogs, webinars and the like about the impact of the pandemic on various sectors of the legal profession—e.g., bankruptcy, trusts and estates, employment, matrimonial—has been part and parcel of the practice of law. In the matrimonial context, three issues in particular have drawn considerable attention:

(1) the extent to which COVID-19 should or should not alter parental access;

(2) applications to modify spousal and/or child support due to changed economic circumstances resulting from COVID-19; and

(3) in the business valuation context, when and to what degree COVID-19 was “known or knowable.”

This article addresses motions to modify custodial arrangements in a post-COVID-19 world, with an emphasis on one seminal question: Will COVID-19 impact the ability of mothers and fathers in the midst of a custody dispute to address and resolve—without input from the other parent—what courts have labeled “common parenting issues”?