What if a formerly addicted parent, now seemingly sober, has a relapse?

Even if it’s rare, if it happens to you, it happens 100% of the time. Your kids deserve to be protected even from unlikely problems. Write the contingency into a divorce agreement on a good day, because if you could really rely on yourself to think clearly amid an addictive relapse, you wouldn’t have relapsed in the first place. Think of a divorce agreement like an insurance policy. Even if you don’t believe there will be a problem, agree on conditions just in case. It’s very common for the addict parents to feel targeted by the conditions, but I just assure them that if they have no intention of violating the condition, who cares if they sign the agreement not to? If someone asked me to certify in writing that I wouldn’t sell three kilos of cocaine, I would, because I have no plans to deal drugs.