What is the most typical custody situation?
In the courts, a typical custody situation is one parent is primary and the other parent has partial custody on every other weekend, one night per week from after school (if school age) to about 7:00, one week of vacation and alternating holidays. In order to be considered for a shared custody arrangement, both parents would need to average 146 overnights during the course of a calendar year. In Pennsylvania from a physical custody standpoint, it is still the overnights that control the determination of custody and not how much time a parent spends with the child each day.
