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Legal wording, what does this mean?

Momma1987TC's picture
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His ex must give written notice by april 15th or gives fourteen days' written notice on or after april 16th to designate a weekend of regular possession that wont occur. What exactly does it mean by the 14 days? What day exactly is her time limit of when she can designate a weekend?

rachel824's picture

She has to give written notice of weekend HE wont have possession by April 15th or she has to give him at least 14 days (2 weeks) notice after April 16 of a weekend he wont get possession.

Momma1987TC's picture

ok thanks. I thought that might be what it meant but wasn't completely sure. Thanks for clarifying it.

Momma1987TC's picture

She has all summer long to take a weekend outside of his 30 days summer vacation and fathers day, But if she doesn't give notification by april 15th, she has to give 2 weeks written notification before the date of the weekend she wants.

Orange County Ca's picture

It is written poorly. Lets ignore the April 15th part of it as its a one time occurrence.

After that she must give ex-husband 14 days notice that she will not take the children on her regularly scheduled weekend.

Theoretically this gives him notice to NOT buy those tickets to Europe because the kids will be with him. Not much notice. And what if she calls Friday and says she just got the first symptom of the Flu? Is he going to insist she pick them up? That would be stupid. Things are always much better if the ex-couple can just work together but if they can't then adherence to the order has to be enforced (unless she has the Flu).

Momma1987TC's picture

yea I explained this to my husband and his response was "so.... we can't tell SD we are going anywhere until we are about to pull out of the drive, because she could say nope I want this weekend right in the middle of your vacation" I said no, she has to give notice by the 15th for the weekend she wants during the vacation regardless of whether or not she has decided on the other weekend outside of vacation time yet. The weekend outside of vacation and fathers day weekend she has to give a 2 week notice at least.