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We have an agreement that I get to see my son a minimum of two nights a week and all day Saturday. I take any chance I have to see my son more often. Since I am a teacher I had him 5 days/nights a week all summer, winter, and spring break. I have taken him to every Doctor appointment he has had since birth. I take him on weekends when she goes out of town and nights when she has to study. More often than not I pick him up from daycare and watch him until bedtime Monday through Thursday. Its only the custody agreement that says two nights a week and Saturday.
Is there any court orders? You keep saying we made an agreement on both child support and parenting time, we need to know if there is court ordered child support and court ordered parenting time?

If your not available to watch him when mom is working or going to school, then she has to use daycare. You should since your a teacher have extra time to limit the length of the time each day the child is in daycare, however most daycares charge for a full day of daycare after 4 or 5 hours. The time you have during school(and it's because of your own work schedule), is a few hours during the day, mom has the overnights, overnights are what count in child support. You will have to look up CA child support and see if you even get a credit for overnights, not all states give that.

Lets go over this again, right now each week, how many overnights do you have? Do you take the child every other weekend from Fri eve until Sun eve? Standard parenting time, which is what most courts order when 2 parents can't agree, is every other weekend and one weeknight(that usually is only 2 or 3 hours). What you got now is far more then that, and in the summer you had even more time, plus you get extra during school breaks. Not sure you really want to go making a fuss and end up in court with this.

It boils down to you not available during those 4 days a week she is using daycare. She works one job for 8 or 10 hours, that's at least one, maybe 1 1/2 days of daycare. On top of that she has a business she is running(does not matter that it is not yet making money), so she could easily get a day or 2 days of daycare saying it's while she runs this business. On top of that she goes to school, daycare can be allowed for school.

If you end up in court, best your going to get is mom imputed with a full time income, but in order to impute with a full time income she has to be able to work that full time job. In order to work that full time job, she has the child who will need daycare full time. You could wind up in court paying for 5 days of daycare. Imputing her will be at whatever wage she is capable of making, so if she is making low wages, I would run this all through the child support formula and see what it comes up with. Run it a bunch of ways, run it using 40 hours imputing at the wage she makes, run it using minimum wage, run it with the child in 4 days, then run it with the child in 5 days. Run it using the overnights you have now, run it using the standard parenting time overnights(if CA even gives credit for overnights).