While some states have a clear-cut date every year of when to exchange your kids during the holidays, Utah divides up parent-time based on the amount of overnights that the winter break is, based on your school district. It’s confusing; let me attempt to make this clear as mud so you don’t run into issues or accidental contempt because you didn’t understand it.

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This is specific to Utah and Texas, but most states handle holiday parent-time fairly similarly. 30-3-35 is the Utah code that specifically outlines the holidays. If you have joint custodial parent-time, you would split the winter break equally. You’ll need to look at your child’s winter break schedule based on their school district. If they do online/home school through a district, you’ll follow the school district’s schedule that you do it through or live in. So if there are 16 nights of winter break, each parent would get 8 overnights, switching halfway through. If it’s an odd number of days, you’ll split the odd day at 1:00 pm. If you don’t have this outlined already in your decree and are having a dispute, you’ll need to deal with this well before the holidays, since courts are closed over the holidays, and attorneys and mediators are usually very busy.