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My ex and I have recently modified our joint custody agreement and now for the first time ever we have alternating weekends which begin Friday morning and end Monday morning. We have never done alternating weekends before and it never occured to me to clarify it enough to avoid the question that has now come up. The order reads exactly: Each parent shall have residential custody on alternating weekends beginning on Friday morning and ending on Monday morning."
My question is what happens when a holiday (which takes precedence over normal time) occurs on the parents opposite weekend? Does that parent who gets the holiday end up with three weekends in a row or does the alternation switch after the holiday?
Example: Child's birthday (we get day before to day after for a total of 3 days, alternating years) falls on Dad's weekend, but it is my holiday this year. So do I get (a) my weekend, then my holiday weekend, then my next weekend or would it be (b) my weekend, my holiday weekend, dad's weekend- which would then shift the alternation for the rest of the year...
I don't think a situation like this should happen again for a while so I don't want to go back to court to have the order clarified but at the same time I don't want to lose any time I am entitled to. Obviously I think I should just get the 3 weekends in a row, but dad thinks it should be two. Dad has agreed to my posting the question here and taking any answers into consideration before a decision is made.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
My ex and I have recently modified our joint custody agreement and now for the first time ever we have alternating weekends which begin Friday morning and end Monday morning. We have never done alternating weekends before and it never occured to me to clarify it enough to avoid the question that has now come up. The order reads exactly: Each parent shall have residential custody on alternating weekends beginning on Friday morning and ending on Monday morning."
My question is what happens when a holiday (which takes precedence over normal time) occurs on the parents opposite weekend? Does that parent who gets the holiday end up with three weekends in a row or does the alternation switch after the holiday?
Example: Child's birthday (we get day before to day after for a total of 3 days, alternating years) falls on Dad's weekend, but it is my holiday this year. So do I get (a) my weekend, then my holiday weekend, then my next weekend or would it be (b) my weekend, my holiday weekend, dad's weekend- which would then shift the alternation for the rest of the year...
I don't think a situation like this should happen again for a while so I don't want to go back to court to have the order clarified but at the same time I don't want to lose any time I am entitled to. Obviously I think I should just get the 3 weekends in a row, but dad thinks it should be two. Dad has agreed to my posting the question here and taking any answers into consideration before a decision is made.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.