Custody & Parenting Time Planner
Type your parenting time schedule in plain English — "Mom Mon–Fri, Dad Sat Sun", alternate holidays, summer week-on-week-off, whatever fits your family. The calendar fills in as you type, and you can fine-tune any day by clicking. When you’re done, save a clean copy for your attorney or the court.
For planning purposes only — does not constitute legal advice
Write it the way you’d say it ("Mom Mon–Fri, Dad Sat Sun"), pick a starting point below, or let the wizard walk you through it.
How this works: Type rules and they’re applied broadly across the year. Click any day to fine-tune it — those clicks stay put even when you change your typing.
Guided wizard — build a schedule by answering questions Wizard
Answer a few questions and the calendar updates as you go. We’ll cover the week-to-week pattern and holidays, breaks, and any summer differences — so don’t close the wizard until you’ve answered all the steps you care about. Click Done when you’re happy, or Start Over to clear and try again.
The calendar updates as you type. Earlier lines stay until something changes them, and any day you click stays clicked.
Parent 1
0%
0 days
Parent 2
0%
0 days
Unassigned
100%
365 days
Click any day to cycle P1 → P2 → clear · Right-click for split day · Long-press on mobile
Examples & reference
What the parser understands:
- Parents: Mom, Dad, Mother, Father, Mommy, Daddy, Mama, Papa, P1, P2, Parent 1, Parent 2, Parent A, Parent B, Primary/Secondary parent, Residential parent, or the names you set above.
- Days & ranges: Mon, Tuesday, Mondays, weekdays, weekends, school days, school nights, school week, business days, long weekend, first/second half of week, midweek; "Mon-Fri", "Wed through Sun", "Fri until Mon", "Mon to Thu".
- Weeks: week 1, week 2, w1, w2, wk 1, wk. 2, first/second week, 1st/2nd week, week one/two. Section prefix: Week 1: Mom weekdays, Dad weekends. Context propagates within a line.
- Alternating: every other, alternate, alternating, bi-weekly, fortnightly, every second week, swap weekly, switch weekly, rotate, rotating, week about, on-off week → Week A only; other week auto-fills.
- Exchange times: "Fri 5pm to Mon 8am", "Fri at 5pm until Mon 8am", 17:00, 5:30pm. Named times: noon, midnight, bedtime, breakfast, lunch, dinner, after school, before school, after work, early/late morning, early/late afternoon, evening. "Half past 5", "quarter past 5", "quarter to 5" all parse as expected.
- Filler (ignored): picks up, drops off, exchange, handoff, overnight, sleepover, has/gets/keeps the kids, visits, visitation, sees/takes/brings/returns the kids, "at" before a time, sharp, around, approximately.
- Holidays & breaks: Federal (Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Independence Day / July 4th, MLK, Presidents', Veterans, Juneteenth, Columbus), NY State (Lincoln's Birthday, Election Day), family (Easter Sunday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween), and school breaks (Winter Break, Mid-Winter Break, Spring Break). Add year parity: Mom Christmas odd years, Dad Thanksgiving even years, Mom Spring Break alternating. Breaks apply to the whole date range.
- Rotate all holidays at once: Alternate holidays (P1 odd, P2 even by default), Mom all holidays odd years, Dad all holidays even years, alternate holidays odd years for Mom and even years for Dad. Use all breaks to target just the school breaks, or all holidays and breaks to include both.
- Seasonal / date-range rules: Put a schedule on its own line with a date range and it applies only during that window. Examples: from July 1 until August 31 week on and week off, June 15 to August 15 alternate weekly, between Dec 20 and Jan 5 Mom Mon-Fri, Dad Sat-Sun. Dates accept "July 1" / "Jul 1st" / "7/1". The rule inside the range can be any valid schedule syntax.
- Sentence-style input: Type how clients actually speak. "I would like a 2-2-3 schedule", "I want a week on and a week off", "We need a 5-2-2-5 rotation", "The schedule will be Mom Mon-Fri, Dad Sat-Sun". Filler like "I would like / I want / please / can we / the schedule should be" is automatically stripped.
- Named presets: 2-2-3, 3-4-4-3, 5-2-2-5 all expand to the standard rotations. week on and week off, week on / week off, alternate weeks all give classic week-on-week-off alternation.
- Day counts: "2 days with Dad, 2 days with Mom" assigns the first parent to Mon-Tue and the second to Wed-Thu. Combine with "alternate the weekends" for a 2-2-3-style schedule.
- Weekends in this calculator: weekend / weekends means Friday through Sunday (the parenting-time convention). weekdays still means Mon-Fri; if you type both in the same line, the rule typed last wins on Friday.
- Smart default: mention just one parent and the other automatically fills in the rest of the schedule.
- Layering: Keep adding lines. New rules override older ones on overlapping days. Manual calendar clicks are preserved when text changes.
Nothing planned yet. Type how you’d like things to look above, or pick a starting point. The numbers fill in as soon as you do.
Parent/Custodian 1
0 days
0% of year
Parent/Custodian 2
0 days
0% of year
Unassigned
365 days
100% of year
Holidays & School Breaks none assigned yet tap a holiday to assign it — tap again to switch parents, again to clear
Disclaimer: This tool is for informational and planning purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and is not a substitute for consultation with a licensed attorney. Parenting time schedules must be approved by the court and comply with applicable New York law. The holiday dates shown are approximate and may vary by school district.