Can you work this out for me or check my terrible maths?

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Child support calculation based maths question for you -

if a court order (the only evidence they'll look at) states -

• every other weekend from Friday night end of school til back to school Monday morning
• every Wednesday night during term time
• half of the holidays

how many nights per year is that?

I think its 146 nights per year.... but, my brain is scrambled

How many weeks in termtime, and how many holiday weeks?

You need to show us your workings.

How long are your holidays / term times? Then we can compare notes.

I had to do this, and it was remarkably simple because the arsehole basically had them one night a month and one week in the summer. I thought he would gaslight me and argue the toss, but he didn't. Probably because the kids were old enough to talk about it.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday - 3 nights every other week (26 weeks) = 78
+
Wednesday nights in term time = ??
+
Half the holidays = ??
The later 2 depends how many weeks are term time and how many are holidays. I guess there might also be overlap between Fri-Sun and half the holidays?

Every other weekend Fri, Sat & Sun (is this just during term time?)

19.5x3=58.5

Every Wednesday during term time

1x39=39

Half of the holidays

6.5x7=45.5

Obviously you've got to factor in rounding, but that's approximately 144 depending on how school holidays fall

I've used 39 weeks of school and 13 weeks holiday, although the year is 52 weeks and 1/2 days ☺️

It's about right, but will depend exactly how school holidays fall, PDdays etc, along with what daytime year starts as to the exact number

Yes @PunkPanther that's pretty much how I've done it. I literally put the whole year into a spread sheet and went through with terms and holidays then a 1 in either the mum or dad column. The bastard has been saying he has them 4 nights a week and I didn't even check it .... ffs

That is a very precise way of doing it! But I agree it's the best way to be 100% certain.

So 146 days of the year is 40%, or on average 2.8 days per year. It's not even close to 4 nights per year, what a knobhed! I hope you get it sorted

Knobhead, or is it two words, knob head... Either way it's definitely not knobhed!

Does he have them EOW during the holidays as well as his "half" of the holidays IYSWIM? That could take him into the next band of 156-174 nights per year.

I make it 142 days, and that is supposing that there are 12 weeks of holidays and 40 weeks of term time.

@chesirecat99 nope holidays straight 50/50 so each half term that's a week long he has from Friday til Wednesday evening