Are there any state guidelines with regard to how much parenting time should be allowed to the “noncustodial” parent?
Legally speaking, there are no specific guidelines regarding what minimum parenting time should be for the noncustodial parent. However, the new parenting time statute (Minn.Stat. 518.175) does create a presumption that the “noncustodial” parent should have the children at least 25 percent of the time during the year, as calculated by counting overnights. In addition, the Minnesota Supreme Court has also published “guidelines” (A Parental Guide to Making Child-Focused Parenting Time Decisions (2001)) containing suggestions regarding what parenting time should perhaps be; but at the end of the day these suggested guidelines are (from our perspective) either far too restrictive, or too vague and equivocal to be meaningful.
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