To think this is not 50/50

[ChristmasWitchy]

My ex has DC the same 2 nights every week and one weekend a month. That's not 50 50 is it?

Of course it's not 50/50

No of course not.

No of course it's not. That's what, an absolute maximum of 140 nights a year. Which isn't anything like 50% of the time.

Of course it isn't. Just say you will do the same and see their reaction.

It's 35% of the year so not 50:50 at all.

Probably only in the mind of an NRP wanting to avoid child support...

If its 2 nights a week and an extra 2 nights once a month.

Well to really simplify

2 nights x 4 = 8
1 weekend x 1 = 2

So total is 10 nights out of (on average) 30.

So he's having them one third of the time.
What world does he live in that one third = one half?

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Yes, on the weekend it may be just 1 night.

Well no because you can't just change the laws of maths. That's all there is to it, it's mathematically incorrect.

Two nights a week plus an extra two nights once a month is 35% of the year.

He’s nearly 8 weeks short every year so if he covers all the schools holidays and two of the other weeks he’s grand. Does he do any extra in the school holidays?

He tends to do 2 weeks in the summer and the equivalent of a week at Xmas.

So he's trying to not pay you any child maintenance and not do 50/50.

Does he pick them/drop them to from school on his weekday nights?

Because 50/50 should mean 50/50 of everything, holidays, medical appointments, sick days, homework.

This is how men, usually men, can keep working and earning well because they manipulate situations and it means women can't move forward with their jobs and career.

Get an excellent solicitor and take him back to court OP. You need to.

So he probably does 2 nights a week as the baseline, plus an extra 24 (the weekends - unless they are 1 night?) plus an extra 5 at Christmas and an extra 8-10 in the summer, so 37-39 in total. So 2.75 nights a week on average?

Yes

That sounds like 3 nights out of 14 to me. Not sure how he makes that 50/50.

I make it 5 in 14

If it was 50/50 it would be one week off/on or 4 nights one week and 3 the next, tell him to take up maths in college again.

So with the time at Christmas and in the summer he does more than a third and less than a half. So maintenance is still owing but probably not a huge amount.

Why do you need to ask if 0.35 is 0.5?

It's not a subjective question, it's very simple maths.

How does he do more than a third?

X2 nights a week and one weekend a month.

So 10 out of 30, assuming he does pick up and drop offs at school, that's just about a third unless there are x5 weekends in a month.

And x3 out of x13 weeks of school holiday, not a third.

So it's not quite a third.

Perhaps the poor fellow's not very good at maths?! Just put a claim through CSA and let them explain it to him.