This is the final installment about the standard child custody schedule options–although we will have more posts in the future about joint custody schedules and other parenting plans. In fact, if you have a unique custody and visitation schedule that you have set up, let us know about it and we’ll do a post on it. It’d be great to find out any ideas the readers have about suggestions for setting up a schedule. Or, if you’d like to see some calendar views of a particular custody and visitation schedule or want us to look up some information on it let us know and we’ll do a post about it.
We’re going to look at three more examples today. Along with each example, the time-share percentage with each parent is included. Remember that this time-share is only for the repeating cycle and doesn’t take holidays, vacation time, and special events into account.
1. Second, Fourth, and Fifth Weekends. This schedule is set up so the non-custodial parent has the second, fourth, and fifth weekend for visitation. This is a weekend that includes an overnight on Friday and Saturday with the visit ending Sunday evening. Here’s the calendar:
This schedule gives the custodial parent 84.32% and the non-custodial parent 15.68%. You can add little variations to this schedule if the non-custodial parent wants more visitation time. You could add an evening or overnight visit during the week or extend the weekend for an extra day. Whatever works for you.
2. First, Third and Alternating Fifth weekends. The non-custodial parent has visitation every first and third weekend. The parents then alternate the fifth weekends of any months. Basically this means that the non-custodial parent has the first and third weekend and every now and then gets an additional weekend (not every month has a fifth weekend, and the parent would only get every other one). The calendar looks like this:
This month the non-custodial parent has visitation on the fifth weekend. The next month with the fifth weekend would show the time going to the custodial parent. The custodial parent has a time-share percentage of 85.48% and the non-custodial has a time-share percentage of 14.52%.
3. Second, Fourth, and Alternating Fifth weekends. This is the same schedule as above, on the weekends change to the second and fourth weekend. This schedule looks like this:
The time-share percentage for this arrangement is 85.41% for the custodial parent and 14.59% for the non-custodial parent.
This wraps up our posts about the standard custody and visitation schedules. If you want to share a schedule that has worked for you, or if you want us to research and give samples of a schedule you’ve heard about leave a comment and let us know. Hopefully this can help you come up with the best parenting plan for you and your children.