Keep in mind that as children get older, they may be involved in activities that will need them in their school districts earlier than a week before school starts in the summer. Allow yourself some time during the summer for vacations. You can always add time but cannot take away court ordered time.
Thanks, Tink. Looking at her schedule, her summer break is almost 3 weeks shorter than we are used to (it was 12 the two years in Texas). With a week at the start and end for adjustments that doesn't leave much time to split. Hopefully we can agree to something. I've always offered more time than we've agreed on (and he never took it). But would like to be able to plan trips with her as well.
And FWIW even with the conditional plan he has had the option to a weekend each month at his expense and hasn't taken it, or even asked. Even with it stating that he could have any extended weekends in the month. Again, we haven't heard from him since the day after Christmas, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him either, so part of me wonders if he'll even show in April, and if we're just slowly going back to the way things were before. Never know what to expect.
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