4 ways to share your parenting time
Newly divorcing parents need to find a way to divide the time they spend with their children. The best way to arrive at a suitable and appropriate parenting-time agreement is to stay flexible as to what works. Four ways that parents might split time with their kids are:
1. The 50-50 schedule allows the children to share an equal amount of time with each parent. parent 1 has Mon and Tue and alternating weekends while Parent 2 has Wed-Thur and every other weekend. (5-2-5-2)
2. 60-40 schedule-This schedule, is 60% to one and 40% to the other - typically Thur overnight and alternating Fri-Mon am for school and the rest to majority time parent and are used to recognize the fact that some days (like Saturday and Sunday) actually involve spending more quality time with the kids. With 50/50 and 60/40, Children have two homes with substantial time.
3-4. The 70-30 and 80-20 schedule-
With the 70-30 and 80-20 schedules children spend plenty of time with both parents, while the children have a single home base. Perhaps the children will spend two or three days with one parent every other weekend under this arrangement.
It can be stressful trying to decide the best parenting-plan arrangements for you and your child, but when parents work with a family law attorney and remain flexible to find an option that works, they will have the best chance of agreeing to balanced, fair and lawful arrangements.
