Family Law, Divorce, Custody and Child Support Attorneys in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Infinite Possibilities

There are seriously an infinite number of possible parenting time schedules. Since parents know their, and their kid’s, schedules much better than lawyers and judges, it’s a very wise move to work out this schedule yourselves instead of leaving it to us.

Number one, it can be crazy expensive for lawyers to learn their client’s, and their client’s kid’s, schedules. And secondly, we’re bound to come up with a plan that will be less than optimal than one you could work out yourselves.

With that said, below are some examples of commonly used schedules. We’ve rated them for the what we call the two pillars of parenting time, frequency and consistency. These are ONLY samples! If you chose to use them at all in your decision making process, you should only use them as a place to start!

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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Sample “Regular” (Instead of Holiday) Parenting Time Schedules

Every Other Weekend

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This schedule gives one parent every other weekend from Friday after school until Monday morning, plus one evening a week.

It can be a good schedule for a parent whose job requires travel during the week or entails late hours.

Week-On, Week-Off

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Parents alternate weeks, usually Monday to Monday with transfer at school.

This schedule may be good when the parents both live close to school and the children are a little older.

3-4, 4-3

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This gives each parent either 3 or 4 days a week with one transition day always the same and one that bounces between two days.

This can be a good schedule for kids of any age, especially if the parents live close to school. It also allows parents to have the same night of the week every week. That’s good if there’s a regular activity the parent and child participate in.

5-2, 2-5

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This schedule usually has its first transfer day on Saturday or Sunday.

This is a hard one to work with sometimes but we see it occasionally and it seems to work for some kids.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Holiday Parenting Time

Holiday parenting time depends, of course, on what holidays your family celebrates. Also, some families have certain holiday traditions. Out-of-town relatives must also occasionally be visited, requiring larger blocks of parenting time.

Generally speaking, what we frequently see is that parents try and share some holidays every year and alternate others. For example, this might mean the kids get time with each parent every Thanksgiving – one parent in the morning, one parent in the evening, but that the parents alternate Easter every year.

These schedules will flip-flop every year. For example, one parent might get Christmas Eve and the other Christmas Day in one year, and the reverse next year.

There are also special days that belong just to one parent – mom should get Mother’s Day, dad, Father’s Day. Mom gets her birthday and dad gets his.

Most of the time, holiday parenting time takes priority over regular parenting time but this varies from divorce to divorce.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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