Looking for some clarification from the community about how a 5/9 cycle would play out in the following circumstance where Consent Orders state:
Children live with parent A and spend time with parent B for five nights a fortnight, being every first Thursday after school to Monday morning school drop-off, and every second Thursday after school to Friday morning school drop-off. School holidays are equally split with parent B having the first half of each of the short term breaks from Friday after school to the middle Saturday.
Question is, how does the school-term cycle end and commence usually?
For example, if the week before the school holidays start is the second week in the cycle, then parent B has the children on that Thursday night, and then from Friday night all the way through to the middle of the school holidays. Parent A has the children for the second half of the holidays. The first week back at school would resume and parent B would have the children from that Thursday through to Monday and we’d be back on the cycle.
I’m specifically after some clarity where the reverse happens, ie, that the final week of school is week one of the fortnightly cycle, and parent B would otherwise have the children for the four-night arrangement but for the start of the school holidays. What then happens first week back at school? Does it revert to the second week of the fortnightly cycle and parent B just misses out on those three nights during the cross-over? Or does it pick up exactly where the cycle left off (ie, first day of school holidays) and parent B gets the children on Friday through to Monday to make up?
Hope this makes sense – it did in my head this morning but not so much on paper right now…
Thanks in advance for any advice
Children live with parent A and spend time with parent B for five nights a fortnight, being every first Thursday after school to Monday morning school drop-off, and every second Thursday after school to Friday morning school drop-off. School holidays are equally split with parent B having the first half of each of the short term breaks from Friday after school to the middle Saturday.
Question is, how does the school-term cycle end and commence usually?
For example, if the week before the school holidays start is the second week in the cycle, then parent B has the children on that Thursday night, and then from Friday night all the way through to the middle of the school holidays. Parent A has the children for the second half of the holidays. The first week back at school would resume and parent B would have the children from that Thursday through to Monday and we’d be back on the cycle.
I’m specifically after some clarity where the reverse happens, ie, that the final week of school is week one of the fortnightly cycle, and parent B would otherwise have the children for the four-night arrangement but for the start of the school holidays. What then happens first week back at school? Does it revert to the second week of the fortnightly cycle and parent B just misses out on those three nights during the cross-over? Or does it pick up exactly where the cycle left off (ie, first day of school holidays) and parent B gets the children on Friday through to Monday to make up?
Hope this makes sense – it did in my head this morning but not so much on paper right now…
Thanks in advance for any advice