Custody schedule
The Long-distance (school year and breaks) schedule
The child lives with one parent during the school year and spends most of the summer and school breaks with the other.
The rotation
This schedule is built around school breaks rather than a weekly rotation, so it has no repeating week grid.
Who it tends to suit
Parents in different cities or states, military families, and any case where a weekly rotation isn't physically possible.
The honest trade-off
Trades frequency for duration: the distant parent may see the child only a few times a year, but gets long, unhurried blocks instead of weekends. These plans live or die on the travel terms — who books, who pays, who flies with an unaccompanied minor — so those get written in detail rather than left to goodwill.
Exchanges
Name the airport, who books, who pays, and what happens to a missed or cancelled flight.
Also called: long distance custody, out of state, holiday-only.
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