Montana · 3-4-4-3
3-4-4-3 in Montana
One parent has three nights and the other four, then it flips the following week. In Montana this is written into a Parenting Plan, where time with a child is called parenting time.
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The rotation
| Week | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | A | A | B | B | B | B |
| 2 | A | A | A | A | B | B | B |
What Montana expects
Montana abolished custody terminology entirely — the statute speaks only of parenting plans and requires a final plan to address residential schedule, decision-making, and dispute resolution.
Governing law: Mont. Code Ann. § 40-4-234.
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.