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WA
I share custody of my 4-year-old daughter, and her mom is the primary parent. Our regular visitation schedule is that I have her every other weekend from Friday morning to Sunday evening.
Our summer vacation schedule on our parenting states "Same as regular visitation schedule. In addition, up to 14 days vacation time with the child with 30 days prior notice to the other parent. If there is a conflict in days, father's choice shall prevail during odd years, and mother's choice shall prevail in even years".
There is no wording on how we split the 14 days, but both of us typically break it up into 2-3 chunks. However, my ex likes to choose times where her vacation time takes place during my weekends in the middle of her regular scheduled time, so they she gets my daughter for 15 days straight, and then another 17 days straight. I think this is unfair since I counted my 3 day weekend towards one of my vacation weeks since I picked first this year, and I'm trying to be reasonable. I feel like her intent is to minimize my time with my daughter. I want to approach her to try to compromise, and try to change the wording on the vacation schedule to make it more specific.
My questions is, what specific wording should I write to make it so that if the vacation time falls after or before a day of regular visitation, then those days must count as part of the vacation time? Or, does anyone have any better suggestions on how I can prevent this from happening?
Any insight is much appreciated. Thank you!
WA
I share custody of my 4-year-old daughter, and her mom is the primary parent. Our regular visitation schedule is that I have her every other weekend from Friday morning to Sunday evening.
Our summer vacation schedule on our parenting states "Same as regular visitation schedule. In addition, up to 14 days vacation time with the child with 30 days prior notice to the other parent. If there is a conflict in days, father's choice shall prevail during odd years, and mother's choice shall prevail in even years".
There is no wording on how we split the 14 days, but both of us typically break it up into 2-3 chunks. However, my ex likes to choose times where her vacation time takes place during my weekends in the middle of her regular scheduled time, so they she gets my daughter for 15 days straight, and then another 17 days straight. I think this is unfair since I counted my 3 day weekend towards one of my vacation weeks since I picked first this year, and I'm trying to be reasonable. I feel like her intent is to minimize my time with my daughter. I want to approach her to try to compromise, and try to change the wording on the vacation schedule to make it more specific.
My questions is, what specific wording should I write to make it so that if the vacation time falls after or before a day of regular visitation, then those days must count as part of the vacation time? Or, does anyone have any better suggestions on how I can prevent this from happening?
Any insight is much appreciated. Thank you!