Arkansas · 4-3
4-3 in Arkansas
The child is with one parent four nights a week and the other three, on the same days every week. In Arkansas this is written into a Parenting Plan, where time with a child is called visitation.
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The rotation
| Week | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | A | A | A | B | B | B |
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
The most predictable schedule on this list — every week is identical, so there is no odd/even week to track and no calendar needed after the first month. It's also the natural on-ramp to 50/50: shifting a single night makes it 3-4-4-3.