However, if your children are a little older, you might consider three days with mom, three days with dad, with the seventh day being
an alternating weekend day.
Not exact matches
The bad news is that I'm coughing regularly and probably starting the chest cold that has had my wife in bed all
weekend (and, no, in her current condition she is NOT hot...) Airborne zinc lozenges, and vitamin C are already on board and will
alternate with the brewskis for at least the next several couple of
days (then back to work on Wednesday, I hope...) My favorite line from Animal House is definitely in order...
Gone are the
days of fathers automatically receiving
alternate weekend visitation with their children plus one evening for dinner in virtually every case.
Today, many families who divorce choose to establish parenting schedules where the children enjoy certain
days overnight each week with one parent or the other, and also
alternate weekends.
One parent, usually the mother, would have sole custody while the other parent would have «visitation» with the children on
alternating weekends and most often one
day a week.
Basically, each parent has two
days, and then the
weekends are
alternated.
Staying with the Thanksgiving example, parents may decide to share the long
weekend, or
alternate whomever has the children for the actual
day, the other parent celebrates with the children for the remainder of the
weekend.
The parents can
alternate between having Thanksgiving
Day and the
weekend, one parent can always have Thanksgiving
Day and the other parent can always have the
weekend, or you can make new arrangements every year.
The
alternate residential parent spends approximately 80
days with the children on an every other
weekend basis with time for holidays and summer vacations.