What are good things and bad things about general, no big conflict, divorce with children in your state?

I’m trying to avoid specific instances of crazy accusations, people with criminal records, an ex who had police threaten you, taking the kids across country etc.

For me, Texas has standard and expanded visitation that can be elected. These are defaults in pretty much all cases. I elected expanded, I have my kids the 1st, 3rd, and 5th (when applicable) weekend of each month and every Thursday overnight. On my off weeks, I pick my kids up from school on Thursday and drop them off at school on Friday morning. On my weekends, it goes from Thursday pickup to Monday morning drop off at school. I get the weekends in the summer minus Thursdays, plus the entire month of July. Overall, I see my kids about 41% of the year.

The minus is that child support is calculated using a simple equation that does not take into account how much time I spend with kids and how much each parent makes. If I make 50k a year, it doesn’t matter if I chose expanded or see my kids once a month. It doesn’t matter if my ex makes 15k a year or 1.5 million a year. My obligation is the same.

What about you?