How did you manage childcare and housing after divorce?

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Please can I ask your arrangements with managing childcare and living arrangements following divorce?
What were your living arrangements?
What were the pros and cons?
Were there other living arrangements you considered but ruled out? Why?

I'd really appreciate you thoughts/ experiences/ advice. Thank you!

A bit of information about my current circumstances.
Currently separating preceding no fault divorce, amicably so far and hoping it'll continue, we want to avoid court. Not sure about housing arrangements. I want to keep the house but he understandably doesn't want to be pushed out. He wants 50-50 custody of the kids which I agree with.

We lived together while divorcing and some house. Split that 50:50. Kept our own pensions. Filled out divorce together and did own consent order.

Cons were - living together so we’re in limbo
pros- not wasting money on rent /solicitors

Thank you for your replies, very much appreciated. I feel so in the dark with it all. I hope you manage to find your way through x

We're not divorced, yet (waiting for the court), and it's a "high conflict divorce" and I've handed it all over to my solicitor.

I'm buying my ex out of the house. He's got a flat, but lives mostly at his girlfriend's. The kids live with me. DC1 sees him regularly, DC2 has no clue who he is. I've got full time nursery and wrap-around care sorted for both of them.

I tried to move with the kids to a family property, which would have been rent free. He refused to agree to the move, but agreed to being bought out of our current house eventually. It's more challenging financially this way, but I'm sorting it.

If it’s amicable would nesting work for you whilst you figure out what happens about the house?

With the new rental rules it’s easier to get out of a tenancy agreement quickly so it could offer good flexibility if you both need some breathing space rather than being stuck in same house together .

I am in Scotland so we had to do the years separation.

I bought him out so the kids stayed settled but he pushed for 50/50 even though I was always the primary carer. I did all school drop off and pick ups and all weekend care.

result is I am not happy with the 50/50. The kids have to move between houses and they do not like it. They want to be at home. He just hands them iPads when they get to his house.
I thought that the best thing was to keep the family home but on reflection I’m not too sure. He chose this house and liked it more than me. He also never paid one penny into the deposit or paid anything towards the mortgage but I still had to buy him out.

I am free of him but I lose the kids 50% of the time and I feel like they are taking the brunt of the separation so I feel extremely guilty most of the time.