Hi there - I may have lots of info for you but my son is younger. Here are some different ideas. Since my son was so young when we split, and we live w/in 12 miles of each other, we share custody - complete 50/50. This is a little confusing - I have my son Mon & Tues. Ex has Wed & Thurs. Then back to me Fri, Sat & Sun. Then it reverses. This is a lot of back and forth. Another option would be that one of us has every Mon & Tues, the other has every Wed & Thurs. Keep wknds the same but rotate(Fri, Sat & Sun). We like not having to worry about Sunday nights so that is why we carry it through Sunday. I also know people with older children who do week on/week off. Swtich either at Friday or midway through the week. Some people are hogs with the children and its not fair. If you are already involved w/ the kids so much it should not be reduced, a judge would not want to reduce what the kids are used too (unless you were a horrible monster!) Sometimes shared custody means a change in child support. You need to be sure you can handle school arrangements etc.., The closer you live, the easier this should be. I could go on forever - just send me a message if you want more info or ideas. Hope this is a good start! It works well for us. And I have heard from other kids who do the week on week off that they really like that.

Week switching is a great plan, I tried to set it up with my girls dad because that's what they wanted and we were in the same school district...didn't work out in my case because the father is not...well lets just say grownup enough but I know other people who do this and it works out great