Connecting Nests

Arkansas · 3-4-4-3

3-4-4-3 in Arkansas

One parent has three nights and the other four, then it flips the following week. In Arkansas this is written into a Parenting Plan, where time with a child is called visitation.

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Template for educational use — not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your state. Laws change; confirm current requirements with a licensed attorney in Arkansas.

The rotation

A = one parent, B = the other. Each cell is one overnight. This rotation divides regular school-year overnights 50/50 — about 182 and 182 nights a year.
WeekMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
1 AAABBBB
2 AAAABBB

What Arkansas expects

Arkansas amended its custody statute in 2021 toward a rebuttable presumption of joint custody, making an equal-time schedule the starting point rather than the exception.

Governing law: Ark. Code Ann. § 9-13-101.

The honest trade-off

Exchanges land on the same two days every week, which makes it easy to remember, and no one waits more than four nights. The trade is that which parent has the weekend flips each week, so weekend plans need a two-week memory.

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