Child support and daycare

[giftedsanta]

Parties live in California. Our child is in full-time daycare from 9AM-6PM, five days a week. Both the parents share the high daycare costs equally according to the Court order.

I have equal number of pickups from daycare in the evenings every month.  What I dont have is equal overnights/dropoff in the daycare. I am allowed to visit the child in daycare anytime.

My question is

1) Can the time spent in daycare be factored into the percentage
of parenting time calculation as no parenting time for both the parents?

[socrateaser]

>My question is
>
>1) Can the time spent in daycare be factored into the
>percentage of parenting time calculation as no parenting time for both
>the parents?

Parenting time is generally calculated based on the number of days that the child stays overnight in a parent's home. Example, if you have the child from 8am-8pm, and then take the child to the other parent's home to spend the night, that day belongs to the other parent.

You could overcome this general rule by showing that you spent more money on the child during your time with the child than did the other parent, but that parent will have the benefit of the reasonable/actual cost of one day's housing on his/her side of the scale.