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(@bruceout)
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Can anyone please give me an annually alternating Christmas schedule that I can use as a basis/wording for a child arrangements order? Ideally a one that allows for travel across the country to visit family (i.e. not one that splits Xmas day in half).

At present the schedule is child is with Parent A until midday on Xmas eve, and then with Parent B until 5pm on Xmas day. But I don’t know if that means/implies that Child must be with Parent B before midday on Xmas eve? If so, how long for? And does it mean that child must go back to Parent A at 5pm on Xmas Day? If so, how long for?

any examples you’ve come across would be good.

Child would normally have an equal shared care schedule.

Child is 2 years and 2 months.

parents live fairly close to one another.

When child starts school, holidays will be shared equally.

I’ve seen it suggested that “when child starts school, first week of school holidays will be with mother and second with father such that handover happens on Boxing Day”. But some schools finish for Christmas on 23rd/24th December so it doesn’t work throughout the country. 

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Topic starter Posted : 14/02/2023 1:12 pm
(@bill337)
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hi, can you tell me is there a primary carer in this scenario? is it Parent A or Parent B?

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Posted : 14/02/2023 4:22 pm

(@bruceout)
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@bill337 Hi, equal shared care

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Topic starter Posted : 14/02/2023 5:09 pm
(@bill337)
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hi, if Xmas day is not to be shared and split in half, then wording can be like:

Xmas day 2023: from 10am Child to spend time with Father. Child to return to Mother following morning 10am (1 overnight stay) 

xmas day 2024: from 10am Child to spend time with Mother. Child to return to Father following morning 10am (1 overnight stay). Thereafter Such arrangements to alternate annually.

can have something like this, or child to stay 1 week with a parent, and xmas day falls inside that week?

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Posted : 14/02/2023 6:11 pm

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(@dl)
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(Childrens names) to spend Christmas with (fathers name) in 2023 then with (mothers name) in 2024 and then alternating year by year and to spend New Year with the other. Spending Christmas shall mean from noon on Christmas Eve until noon on Boxing Day.

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Posted : 26/02/2023 12:28 am
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(@dl)
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My partner has almost week on week off with the children.  Regardless whether its his week or not over the Christmas period this is the arrangement.  The mother is the primary care giver and they live with her and spend time with him.  Shared care is 60/40. 

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Posted : 26/02/2023 12:32 am

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