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My question involves a child custody case from the State of: CA

Last year, my ex was given parenting time with our daughter every other weekend. There have been approximately 15 scheduled visits since the order, and of those, he has either shown up late, or dropped her off hours early to about ten of them. He has also failed to show up for any of his additional holiday time that he requested - Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, New Years Eve. He is supposed to pick her up from her daycare when he has his parenting time, however her daycare provider has mentioned to me that she longer wants him to come to her home. He does not work, does not go to school (collects disability, does not pay child support but that is another issue), so I have asked him to change his parenting time from Fri-Sun to Sat-Mon, to which he said no. Our daughter has been attending the same daycare since she was six weeks old (and it is one of the few that I can afford since I pay it myself), so finding her a new daycare isn't an option right now. We have another court date scheduled in a few months to and I plan to ask the judge to make this change. What are my chances of getting his parenting time changed to Sat-Mon?
I think you have some legitimate issues that are worthy of making some kind of provisions to alleviate the issues. However, since it's only six months into a new order, a judge may or may not be hesitant to make a lot of changes, especially if dad promises to do better.

I think you need to clearly draw the lines between what you are asking for and how that will make things better for your daughter in particular, and not just you. I'm confused why changing to Saturday-Monday is going to solve these issues? Will dad be taking daughter to daycare Monday morning? Why does dad's time need to occur on the weekends anyway, if the child is not in school and dad does not work? What will dad claim as his objection to your proposal?