time split strip

Count the Actual Parenting Time Split — Free

Paste the schedule and any changes, and read the real split of overnights and hours against what the agreement says.

The proof surface

Agreements describe intention; school terms, work trips and illness move the actual split. Counting overnights week by week is what turns a feeling into a record.

Inputthe schedule as it actually ran, week by week

Rare devicecounts actual overnights and hours from the reader's own schedule rather than restating the agreement's intention

Output artifacta strip of weekly segments with overnight counts and the agreed split ruled across

Cost$0 · local-first · one free run · samples labelled

Sample, not your facts: Sample: week 1 Mon–Wed with A, week 2 swapped for a work trip, week 3 five nights with A, agreement 60/40, 13 weeks — four concrete points across four types.

Why the flat version breaks

Intention versus practice

An agreement that reads 60/40 can run 75/25 in a term once work trips and school holidays are counted.

Arguing from memory

Both parents remember recent weeks differently; a week-by-week count is the only version a mediator or solicitor can work from.

Ignoring holiday periods

School holidays shift the split furthest and are the weeks most often left out of a hand-written count.

How to work the time split strip

Write each week as it ran

One line per week in shorthand — initials, nights and any swap.

Enter the agreed split

The agreement's own proportion becomes the rule drawn across the strip.

Read the segments

Weekly segments show who had the nights, with counts and the agreed rule beside them.

Raise it at handover

Share the strip with the other parent or a mediator before the next disagreement, not during it.

What the strip replaces

Question	Before	On the strip
What is the real split	recall the last few weeks	overnight counts per week
Where it drifted	argue about it	segments coloured by who had the week
What to raise	'it's not fair'	the difference against the agreed proportion

The strip counts what your own lines describe; it does not interpret an agreement or decide what is in a child's interests.

Run it on the samples, right here

FIRST-LOAD

Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the time split strip: your schedule notes stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.

Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a paper ticker strip

The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 9 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.

The strip and the overnight counts are free. The paid layer prints the schedule record and keeps it across terms.

Open the parenting time strip companion

Boundary

This time split strip works only on the schedule notes you paste you paste. It does not interpret a custody order, does not advise on child maintenance, and does not mediate between parents. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with a family mediator or solicitor before changing arrangements before you rely on it.

What this is built on

Every figure comes from the schedule notes you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
Method: overnights are counted per week from the days named on each line and compared with the agreed proportion
Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.

Before: the reader believed the split was equal. After: they can see 39 overnights against 13 across the term, printed week by week.