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Pennsylvania · 3-4-4-3

3-4-4-3 in Pennsylvania

One parent has three nights and the other four, then it flips the following week. In Pennsylvania this is written into a Custody Agreement, where time with a child is called physical custody.

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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 Pennsylvania.

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.
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What Pennsylvania expects

Pennsylvania grades custody into named forms — sole, shared, primary, partial, and supervised physical custody — and its relocation statute (§ 5337) has strict notice requirements worth writing into the plan.

Governing law: 23 Pa.C.S. § 5323.

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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