Shared Physical Care – Parenting Time Schedules
In Iowa (and to a lesser extent South Dakota and Nebraska), shared physical care is becoming more and more common. Shared physical care parenting time schedules vary from family to family. One of the more common schedules involves the children rotating between the parents homes on a weekly basis (with the opposite parent having one evening of mid-week visitation).
Other common schedules are as follows:
5/5/2/2 Shared Physical Care Parenting Schedule
************SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
WEEK 1 MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD DAD
WEEK 2 DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM
WEEK 3 MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD DAD
WEEK 4 DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM
2/2/3 Shared Physical Care Parenting Schedule
**********SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
WEEK 1 MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD
WEEK 2 DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM
WEEK 3 MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD
WEEK 4 DAD MOM MOM DAD DAD MOM MOM
Another variation of this schedule is for MOM and DAD to each have the same weekdays each week. For example, DAD would always have Monday and Tuesday and MOM would always have Wednesday and Thursday – only Friday Saturday and Sunday would rotate.
3/4/4/3 Shared Physical Care Parenting Schedule
***********SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
WEEK 1 MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD DAD
WEEK 2 MOM MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD
WEEK 3 MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD DAD
WEEK 4 MOM MOM MOM MOM DAD DAD DAD
Another less frequently used parenting plan involves rotating the children every two days.
