Calculation Of Time Share
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The other day I was in Court and this question came up, What is the percentage of time when a child spends one overnight with the other parent during the week? The DissoMaster Time Share Table gives a percentage for two overnights, but not one (I know, take ½ of the two, but the opposition questioned that method).
In fact, more than once in Court the question of time share has stalled a DissoMaster calculation, delaying the Court case, often times forcing a non-guideline guess as to what a certain period may represent in terms of time share percentage.
As stated above, the DissoMaster gives a rudimentary time share calculator, but that doesn’t cover several common situations. Below is a more complete time share chart, which can be of help to those falling outside of DissoMaster’s Time Share Table.
| One weekend per month | 6.58% |
| One extended weekend per month | 9.86% |
| Two weekends per month | 13.15 |
| One weekend per month and one evening per week | 13.70% |
| One extended weekend plus one overnight per week* | 19% |
| Alternate weekends | 14.25% |
| Alternate weekends plus two weeks during summer | 18.36% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus two weeks during summer | 18.90% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus two weeks during summer (CP also has two weeks during summer) | 18.36% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus one month during summer* | 23% |
| Two extended weekends per month | 19.73% |
| Alternate weekends and one evening per week | 21.37% |
| Alternate weekends and one overnight per week | 28.49 |
| Alternate extended weekends. | 21.40% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus four summer weeks (alternate summer weekends, with makeups) | 21.10% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus four summer weeks (no alternate weekends) | 20.55% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays plus 1/2 summer | 22.47% |
| Alternate extended weekends plus one evening per week | 28.49% |
| Alternate extended weekends plus one overnight per week | 35.62% |
| Alternate weekends, 1/2 holidays, 1 evening/week, four summer weeks (alt. weekends continued during summer, makeup weekends for the 4 weeks) | 28.23% |
| Alternate weekends, 1 evening/week when school in session and 1/2 school vacation | 28.49% |
| One day per week | 14.29 |
| Two days per week | 28.57% |
| Three days per week | 42.85% |
| Four days per week | 57.14 |
| Five days per week | 71.43 |
| Six days per week | 85.71 |
| First, third and fifth weekends | 15.34% |
| First, third and fifth extended weekends | 23.01% |
| First, third and alternate fifth weekends | 14.25% |
| First, third and alternate extended weekends | 21.37% |
| One evening per week | 7% |
| One overnight per week | 14.2 |
| Two weeks during the summer | 3.85% |
| All time during which child is not in school (i.e. summer, winter and spring breaks, Thanksgiving holidays, etc.) | 31% |
| Alternate weekend, one overnight per week plus 1/2 of all time child not in school | 30% |
| Alternate weekends, one overnight per week , 1/2 holidays plus one month during summer | 29% |
| Alternate weekends, one overnight per week plus 1/2 of all time child not in school | 30% |
| Alternate weekends, one evening per week plus entire summer | 30% |
| Alternate weekends, one overnight per week plus entire summer | 39% |
| Three days one week/four days the next week and continuing thereafter | 49.99% |
| Note: A “Standard Weekend” is Friday evening from 5:00 PM to Sunday evening at 5:00 PM. An “Extended Weekend” is Friday afternoon after school until Monday morning when school starts.If your visitation schedule does not conform to one of the above examples, you can always add up the number of hours of visitation per year and divide that number by 8760 (the total number of hours in a year). That will give you the visitation percentage based on your yearly visitation schedule. | |
