ABSTRACT
A major issue in divorces that involve children is the allocation of parental time. In many divorces, parents work out, with greater or lesser difficulty, time-sharing arrangements that satisfy both them and the Court. In many other situations, parents cannot agree on how to allot time, and the Court must decide on temporary or long-range plans. While sensible people have always recognized that no single time-sharing arrangement is optimal for all children, often the Court has to order temporary custody and time-sharing rapidly and without access to much information about the children or the family circumstances.
