9. How specific is the schedule you need for parenting time/visitation? The better your communication and the older your children, the less specificity you will need.
8. The typical and traditional schedule has been alternate weekends from Friday to Sunday, along with alternate holidays consisting of Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter, sometimes New Years, Mother’s Day with mom. and Father’s Day with dad, sometimes alternating or sharing children’s birthdays and children having parents’ birthdays with each parent, along with any other visitation/paternity time agreed upon by the parties.
7. How do you deal with vacations and school breaks? A typical schedule may be to alternate or share the Christmas holidays. An example would be from the day after school ends to noon on Christmas day one year, for example, with mom and dad having from noon on Christmas day to the day before school starts in January that year, and then rotate it, along with alternating winter/February breaks, if any, and Easter/spring breaks.
6. How are you spending the summer holidays? This can be arranged from the same schedule used during the school year until the non-custodial parent has a week or two over the summer. In other cases, people will split the summer in half, or one parent will have most of the summer and the other will have most of the school year. There are many possibilities.
5. What is the “Right of Preference”? This is where the other parent has the right of first refusal if the first parent has a conflict or leaves town. It is an area that often creates more problems than it solves. Unless the parties communicate and make it explicit, it can be a breeding ground for future litigation. Does the right of first refusal mean that there should be a right of first refusal over nurseries? Does this mean that the grandparents cannot visit or pick up the children? Should it be limited to someone out of town on vacation or business? The reasons must be specifically specified. Communication between the parties is essential.
4. What types of parenting time are used in a joint custody agreement? Some examples are the 50/50 schedule, which includes a week and a week off, with the other parent perhaps having dinner on one of the days of the week. Another schedule is called 2/2/5. This means, for example, that mom has the kids every Monday and Tuesday, dad every Wednesday and Thursday, and then the parties alternate on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so the kids don’t spend more than five days at most. away from either parent. This is a good time, especially with younger children.
3. Should there be different schedules for children of different ages? Absolutely. What makes sense to a two-year-old is different from what makes sense to a four- or five-year-old. What makes sense to a child in elementary school is different from a schedule that makes sense to someone who is eleven or twelve years old. Teen schedules are very different, and frankly, with teens, often the schedule is not how much time teens spend with either parent, but how little time they spend and the fact that friends and school activities take precedence. about parenting time.
2. Communication about parenting time. It is important to communicate. You can communicate by phone, by email, especially if you need to have a record of communication where communication is poor.
1. A good clause to include in your divorce decree is one that says that parenting/visitation time can be modified as the children get older, so that schedules that make sense for a young child can be changed to one that makes sense for a young child. that makes sense to a child. as he or she ages. Once again, the key is what is in the best interest of your children.