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Were particular weekends specified in your visitation?

By date? No, aside from his b'day and father's day - it
was
wide
open,
anytime he wanted to see them.
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Didn't you take him to court to require him to stick with
the
visitation
times or give you advanced notice
of time changes?

Only after he had repeatedly cancelled at the last minute any
number
of
weekends - like a year's worth of last minute cancellations?
And even then, the only specifications were every other
weekend,
and
other
times as requested -

Do you believe that a child should spend an equal amount of
time
with
both
parents? If not, why not?

There is no blanket answer to that one - in the case of one
parent w
ho
simply refuses to take part in the children's lives, for example,
then
equal
time simply isn't available. In the case of one parent who is
abusive,
for
example, equal time isn't reasonable or safe.

In that case, NO time is reasonable or safe, no?

Which case? More than one was mentioned.

In the case of the one immediately before my question; "In the case of
one
parent who is abusive, for example, equal time isn't reasonable or
safe.".

Wouldn't that depend on the type of abuse (child vs. spousal)? Or
whether or not the abusive person has a mental illness which can be
controlled (anger issues vs. pedophilia)?

You tell me. Can you give me an example where some, but not equal,
amount of
time is reasonable or safe?

In the case of a parent who has absented themself from their children's
lives for any extended period of time, a shorter amount of time together,
like a one day 'daytrip' or visit, would be far more reasonable then an
extended amount of time, like a week-long visit.

There's your example.
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So...the solution to lack of parenting time is to reduce the parenting
time?
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That *certainly* wasn't the question I was answering. Chris asked for an
example where some, but not equal, time was reasonable, and I answered.