I founded Front Porch Software, LLC, to develop tools that ease difficult life situations involving children. The launch of Shared Ground™ is the first step in realizing that vision. Understanding that divorce is one of the most stressful, and often disruptive, events in one’s life, I wanted to build a program from the ground up that would help parents and children deal with the complexities of shared parenting.

The software is designed to revolutionize the entire process of developing parenting plans for divorcing parents. Not only does it contain built-in wizards that walk users through every step in setting up their personalized calendars, it also has embedded defaults that eliminate scheduling conflicts and suggest commonly accepted schedules to ensure equitable parenting time.

Shared Ground is the simplest parenting plan calendar software on the market. It provides parents and other caregivers—as well as attorneys, mediators, arbitrators, and family therapists—an easy-to-use, yet robust tool for creating and managing workable parenting plans.

In addition, our sophisticated technology allows the user-created calendar to interface with their Palm™-compatible PDA or Microsoft Outlook™. The calendar can also be printed at anytime for sharing with relatives and other caregivers.

With the launch of Shared Ground On-Line, we have again revolutionized the way parenting plans are viewed. The new online version continues to use the Shared Ground technology, allowing you to upload to a new on-line site for secure and seamless viewing from anywhere in the world. Now, notes can be instantly added to the on-line calendar with auto-notifications to other user designated partners. There is a new secure forum, and there will soon be instant access via new iPhone and Blackberry APPs, all designed to simplify the management of your unique parenting plan.

We will continue to improve and enhance the Shared Ground™ product with updates that will be available online and without charge to our customers. That is our commitment to you.

Watch for other new products designed with the same life-enhancing vision from Front Porch Software.

Jeff Thomas

Founder