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RULE 27. MODEL VISITATION SCHEDULE
Visitation is a time for children to do things with the parent with whom they do not live. Activities you can do with them
or skills you can teach them help the time be rewarding. Helping the children find friends in your neighborhood also helps make
it like home for them.
Liberal visitation arrangements are encouraged, as contact with both parents is important to the children. Specific items in
the Journal Entry take precedence over this schedule. Changes or modification can be made by the Court if need for such is
shown. This schedule does not affect support payments.
Please be advised that this schedule is merely a guideline for visitation. It is each party's responsibility to tailor this
schedule as necessary to meet the best interests of their children.
VISITATION BETWEEN THE CHILDREN AND THE NON-RESIDENTIAL PARENT SHALL TAHE PLACE AT SUCH
TIMES AND PLACES AS THE PARTIES MAY AGREE, BUT WILL NOT BE LESS THAN:
1. Weekends: Alternate weekends from Friday at 6:00 p.m. until Sunday at 6:00 p.m. This alternating weekend schedule shall
not change, even if interrupted by holiday and birthday, summer and/or vacation visitation.
2. Weekdays: One weekday evening per week from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
3. Extracurricular Activities: Regardless of where the children are living, their participation in existing and renewed
extracurricular activities, school related or otherwise, shall continue uninterrupted. The parent with whom they are residing
at the time of the activity shall provide the physical and economic cost of transportation to these activities. The residential
parent shall provide the non-residential parent with notice of all extracurricular activities, school related or otherwise, in
which the children participate, schedules of all extracurricular activities (handwritten by the residential parent if no formal
schedule is provided by the activity) and the name of the activity leader (including address and telephone number of
reasonably available to the residential parent).
4. Pre-School Ages: Pre-school age children follow the same schedule of school age children in the school district where
they live regardless of whether or not other school age children line in the family.
5. Holidays (includes birthdays): In odd-numbered years, mother has Spring Break, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the first
half of Winter Break. In odd-numbered years, father has Martin Luther King's Day. Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and the
second half of Winter Break. In the even-numbered years, the schedules are reversed.
a. In the event of a conflict between regular visitation and holiday visitation, holiday visitation prevails. The
alternating weekend visitation shall be suspended as a consequence of the holiday schedule and shall recommence
with the same rotation the first weekend immediately following. For example: If the weekend immediately
proceeding a holiday were mother's weekend, the holiday weekend would be celebrated with the parent entitled to
the holiday. The weekend rotation would recommence the weekend after the holiday as father's weekend after the
holiday as father's weekend. This occurs even though one parent may have the children two weekends in a row.
For any holiday falling on a Monday or Friday, if the weekend immediately preceding or following the holiday
visitation are spent with the same parent, there is no need for that parent to return the children that evening and
then pick them up the next morning. For a holiday, falling on a Friday visitation commences Friday a.m. and
continues to Sunday evening: or for a holiday falling on a Monday, visitation commences Friday evening and
continues to Monday evening.
b. Mother's Day and Father's Day and, the parent's birthdays only when they fall on a Saturday or Sunday, are to be
spent with the appropriate parent. These are as agreed or 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. These do not have to be made up.
c. Other days of special meaning, such as Religious Holidays, etc., (i.e., New Year's Eve and Day, Kwanzaa,
Passover, Easter, Rosh Hashana, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day) should be decided together, as follows:
These do not have to be made up.
d. Hours for parents who can not agree are as follows: Martin Luther King's Day (9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.); Spring
Break (6:00 p.m. ON THE DAY school is out to 7:00 p.m. the day before school recommences, to be coincidental
with the days of the school vacation and not to interfere with school): Memorial Day and Labor Day (6:00 p.m.
Friday to 6:00 p.m. Monday): July 4th (9:00 a.m. the next day): : thanksgiving (6:00 p.m. Wednesday to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday): Winter Break (first half commences at 6:00 the last day of school before Winter Break begins, until
December 25 at 1:00 p.m. second half commences at 1:00 December 25 until 6:00 p.m. the day before school
recommences).
e.
48-hour notice should be given by the parent with whom the holiday is being spent for any arrangements for out of
town travel on the holidays or of a change in pick-up/return times.
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