Athens County, Ohio Model Visitation and Parenting Schedule

Athens County Rule 24.06 Visitation/Parenting Time Guidelines

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(A) Every decree involving children shall be accompanied by a specific visitation/parenting time schedule. The following is a standard schedule that shall control unless otherwise specified in the journal entry:

1. Alternate weekends from 6:30 p.m. Friday until 6:30 p.m. Sunday. (The beginning and ending times may be varied to accommodate the parents’ work schedules.)

2. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day shall be spent with the appropriate parent. Should this provision require the child to be with the residential parent during the other parent’s visitation/parenting time, the parent who is not a residential parent shall return the child by 9:00 a.m. on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Should the reverse occur, the parent who is not a residential parent shall receive the child at 9:00 a.m. on that day and return the child at 6:00 p.m.

3. Alternate holidays as follows:

a) in even-numbered years, the residential parent shall have the child:

(1) President’s Day, Friday night to Monday night.

(2) Spring Vacation, 6:30 p.m. on the day school ends to 6:30 p.m. the Sunday prior to school reconvening.

(3) Memorial Day, Friday night to Monday night.

(4) Labor Day, Friday night to Monday night.

(5) Christmas, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

b) in even-numbered years, the parent who is not a residential parent shall have the child:

(1) Easter, Thursday night to Sunday night.

(2) Fourth of July, night before to morning after except when the 4^th falls on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday - then visitation/parenting time shall continue the night before and continue to end of weekend or end of holiday, whichever is later.

(3) Thanksgiving Day, Wednesday night to Sunday night.

(4) Christmas Vacation and New Years Day, December 26^th at 9:00 a.m. until the night of the end of the New Years Holiday.

c) In odd-numbered years the schedule stated in 3a) and 3b) shall be reversed between the parents.

d) Other days of special meaning, such as religious holidays or Martin Luther King Day should be decided by the parties together, written down, and alternated.

e) Unless otherwise indicated in an entry or these rules, holiday visitation/parenting time shall begin and end at the same times as weekend visitation/parenting time. Holiday visitations/parenting times have precedence over the regular visitation/parenting time schedule, but shall not otherwise modify it.

4. The parent who is not a residential parent shall have extended summer visitation/parenting time up to four (4) weeks duration. These extended times supercede the alternating weekend visitations/parenting times, i.e. a nonresidential parent may not begin an extended time on a Monday following an alternating weekend, or end an extended time on a Friday before an alternating weekend, as a means of lengthening the extended visitation/parenting time. Alternating weekends shall begin again two weeks after the end of the extended visitation/parenting time.

The parent who is not a residential parent shall attempt to coincide his or her vacation time with summer visitation/parenting time. The parent who is not a residential parent shall notify the residential parent no later than May 15^th each year of the weeks summer visitation/parenting time will be exercised. Summer school necessary for the child to pass into the next grade must be attended.

5. The child’s birthday shall be celebrated in the residential parent’s home, unless it falls on a visitation/parenting time day. The parent who is not a residential parent may celebrate the birthday at another time if desired.

6. For parents residing in different locations that make the above schedule impractical, visitation/parenting time shall be, at a minimum, as follows:

a) Christmas vacation {including Christmas Day) in alternate years;

b) Spring vacation every year;

c) up to six (6) weeks summer visitation/parenting time every year;

7. Visitation/parenting time may occur at such other times and places as the parties may agree.

(B) Both parents shall be diligent in having the children ready and available at the appointed times. The child and/or residential parent have no duty to await the nonresidential parent for more than thirty (30) minutes. A parent who is late, unless he or she suffers an unavoidable vehicle breakdown or delay enroute and promptly notifies the residential parent of the delay, shall forfeit visitation/parenting time for that time period.

(C) The parent who is not a residential parent should give twenty-four (24) hour notice to cancel visitation/parenting time. If a child is ill, the residential parent should also give twenty-four (24) hours notice if possible.

(D) The residential parent shall send with the child sufficient clothing and other wear appropriate to the season to last the visitation/parenting time period.

(E) Visitation/parenting time does not include leaving the child with a non-family member while the nonresidential parent pursues his or her own pleasures or activities.

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