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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?
As the other poster stated, you have to articulate a plan that will resolve a potential problems. If dad is misbehaving with the daycare provider the you have to articulate a plan that will not deprive dad of time, but will eliminate the need for dad to pick up or drop off the child at daycare...and articulate why its important to keep the child with the same daycare provider.

You have not done that here...and you will have to do that in court. If your argument is that dad can pick up the child from you on Saturday mornings and return the child to you on Monday mornings, eliminating the need for a daycare exchange, then you have to articulate that. You cannot assume that the judge will understand why that makes a difference if you do not explain it.