Custody schedule

The Every weekend schedule

The child is with one parent on school nights and the other every weekend.

71/29

overnight split

night cycle

261

nights a year (parent A)

The rotation

A = one parent, B = the other. Each cell is one overnight. This rotation divides regular school-year overnights 71/29 — about 261 and 104 nights a year.
Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	A	A	A	A	B	B	A

Who it tends to suit

Parents whose work weeks make weeknights impossible — shift work, long-haul, seasonal schedules.

The honest trade-off

The weekend parent never handles a school morning; the weekday parent never gets a day off. Courts sometimes raise that imbalance on their own, so plans using it often give the weekday parent one weekend a month back.

Exchanges

Friday after school to Sunday evening, every week.

Also called: weekends only.

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Compare with

Alternating weekends plus a midweek overnight (71/29)Week-on / week-off (50/50)2-2-3 (50/50)2-2-5-5 (50/50) All schedules →