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any have new year's eve/day as holidays in the CO?

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We don't...and if it is ex's time he forfeits it every single year so he can go out. This is fine with me, though, since we have come up with some great family traditions to celebrate the new year together.
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Re: any have new year's eve/day as holidays in the CO?

  • cabbage5215cabbage5215 member
    Ours specifies that whatever parent has DD for Christmas Eve and Christmas has DD until Sunday before school starts.
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  • Ginlyn0Ginlyn0 member

    It's included as part of Christmas visitation in our COs for both DD & skids. It split like this where you either get from the day the kids get out of school until Dec. 26th @ noon or Dec 26th @ noon until the day the kids go back to school (which is always after New Year's).

    However, I wish our birthdays were included in our CO because my b-day is New Years Day and because of the Christmas visitation, every other year (like this year) my DD misses my birthday because she's at her dad's.

    DD(14),SD(13),SS(11),SS(9),DS(3)

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  • KyahKyah member

    As I said in your other post none of the holidays are laid out in the CO. For the most part DH and BM are reasonable with each other there.

    BM likes to go out on holidays like Halloween and New years. Halloween has fallen on our nights most years and I think we may have taken him out on her nights once or twice. New years DH and I always stay home so we're happy to have SS with us. Like you said, its fine with us because we have come up with some of our own great family traditions.

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  • goldenjesgoldenjes member

    One parent has Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, while the other has NYE & New Year Day.  Often, that parent ends up having some sort of Christmas celebration over NY anyway.

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  • hmills520hmills520
    Ours switches every other year, but this year X had DS from the day school got out until 9pm on Christmas eve and he is home from then until school starts which is the 4th. 
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  • crabapplecrabapple

    I'm always amazed that in so many COs there isn't a default for holidays.  In my CO and in MHs CO re: holiday time if the parties didn't agree on something specific, then it defaults to the State Parenting Guidelines for holidays.

    The guidelines are something along the lines of the following:

    In even numbered years, custodial parent gets children on child's birthday, NY Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Christmas Eve (non-custodial would get this schedule in odd numbered years).

    In odd numbered years, custodial parent get's children on Easter, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and NYE (non-custodial would get this schedule in even numbered years)

    Winter/Christmas Break for our kids is 2 weeks out of school, that parenting time is spilt between both parents (this year, we had kids from Monday of break - Christmas Eve, BM picked up Christmas Eve at 7pm and will keep them until NYE. We pick them up at 7pm on NYE and keep them until Monday morning when they go back to school).

    As far as a parent's birthday is concerned, the kids are with the parent on their bday. If birthday falls during a non-parenting time, parent gets kid for the day (9 am - 9 pm). 

    Oh and holidays that occur on other parent's parenting time is made up by swapping a weekend or overnights elsewhere.

     

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