He didn't originally ask for extra days. When he notified her 30 days in advance he stated Fri, 6/15 - (Whatever date). The problem is that he has been telling others that he'll have the child longer. But not telling Mom that. In addition, the grandmother has decided that he should already get the weekend and add three days to it . . . again, not with the required 30 days notice. And he's asking to pick up the child early . . . not with the required 30 days notice. In other words, either he's really disorganized or he's playing games. This is exactly why I had it in my orders that the weekends were protected times and that vacations were to be taken in two (and later 4) nonconsecutive 7 days increments. In other words, I couldn't take his weekend for vacation time and he couldn't take mine. He insisted that his vacation should end with a weekend he/his wife always requested 5 p.m. Sunday to 5 p.m. Sunday. One year I couldn't take a typical full work week because I had to be at work at least a couple of days EVERY week during that summer. I requested 5 p.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Wed and my ex's wife had a conniption. She just KNEW it was ILLEGAL.

Never got arrested though.
He never gave me an itinerary. I always gave him one. He wasn't supposed to take the boys across the state line without letting me know in writing but they routinely took them to his wife's sisters in VA. I never took him back to court for contempt because I knew it was just a ploy to annoy me and I knew he'd be back. And if he did do anything horrible, his parents would side with me. That helped a lot in the level of tolerating stupid stuff.
The real problem is that he made a decision, his mom found a loophole and is now trying to exploit it.