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[quote=Anonymous]My sister's kids have a 2-2-3 schedule with their parents. I have talked to both my sister and my nieces about it over the years. It has not worked out that badly for them. The girls are a senior and a sophomore in HS now. Both my nieces and my sister would have preferred for my sister to have custody during the school week and their father to have them every other weekend. But, my exBIL did not want to pay child support, so pushed for 50/50 custody and this schedule.

I think they made it work without major problems because my sister and her ex live within a mile of each other and both in the same school district, so the girls can ride the bus to school from either house. And, if they forgot something at one house, it's easy for a parent to run them over so they can pick it up.

They were also 9 and 11 when the divorce happened, so old enough to manage the logistics of the transitions largely by themselves (no parent was packing a suitcase each time.)  I do not think this would work with kids much younger than this.

My sister and her ex have tried to stay on good terms and stay flexible about helping each other out when conflicts arise. They pretty easily trade weekends when things come up, but they don't have to always ask each other for help on week nights because the girls were old enough to stay by themselves by the time the divorce happened. My ExBIL is a jackass who lives with the girlfriend and her kids that he cheated on my sister with, but they try to stay cordial and cooperative on kid stuff. It does make a difference. 
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