Parenting time calculator — for Canadian parents

How to read this in Canada

Keep the record in layers: what the plan says, the dated event and its source, then what happened next. A fact stops being useful the moment it is written up as a legal conclusion.

Canadian rules can come from federal, provincial or territorial law. Start with the order or plan that applies to you, and keep its exact terms, such as parenting time or decision-making responsibility.

If you need to correct an error, add a dated note rather than editing the original. Keep routine events near the disputed ones so a family lawyer in your province or territory can judge which facts actually matter.

Province-or-territory checklist for a Canadian review

Name the province or territory and the court. Add the law or order tied to the parenting plan. Keep its own terms for parenting time, major decisions, contact, and support. Use local forms and due dates. If two legal areas may be involved, flag that point for a lawyer.

Choose a unit before entering values

Overnights and hours answer different organizational questions. Use one unit for every value in a calculation and state the counting rule in the record. Do not convert between units by changing the toggle. The tool preserves the numbers and changes only the unit label. Courts, agencies, agreements, and support systems may count time differently.

Define the period and planned time

A fourteen-day schedule has fourteen overnights, while a fourteen-day hourly review has 336 hours. Planned time is the amount assigned in the schedule for the chosen unit and period. Keep the schedule or agreement as a linked source.

Subtract missed time and add completed make-up time

Missed time is part of the planned allocation that did not occur. Make-up time should be counted only when it occurred within the selected period. A proposal is not completed time. The calculator prevents missed time from exceeding planned time and prevents planned or actual time from exceeding the period.

Read share and variance together

Planned share is planned divided by the period total. Actual share uses calculated actual time. Variance is actual minus planned: a negative figure means actual time was lower in that period. A positive figure means it was higher. The figures describe inputs, not why a difference occurred.

Link every adjustment to the chronology

A percentage without its rows is difficult to audit. Link missed units to a missed-handover entry and make-up units to the completed event. Record later corrections transparently, then rerun the calculation and date the revised summary. It isn't useful to detach the summary from those source rows.

Keep legal and administrative calculations separate

This aid does not decide custody allocation, child support, entitlement, compliance, or what a court will accept. Definitions can vary by US state, UK nation, Australian state or territory, Canadian province or territory, and other systems. Use the terms and method needed by the relevant document or qualified local adviser.

A Canadian review note

Compare planned and actual parenting time for one period using overnights or hours, including missed and completed make-up time. Sharing any of it in Canada takes a few more steps.

Keep a review pack short: the current order or plan, a factual timeline and the source files that matter. Say plainly where something is missing.

Ask a family lawyer in your province or territory before you file or share records. Privacy, court, and evidence rules can differ across Canada. One PDF does not make those rules the same.

Name the province or territory. Note whether federal divorce law or another family law applies. Keep the terms used in the order itself.